The 36-year-old mother received a second chance at life after surgeons performed a first-of-its-kind quadruple-organ transplant.
Northwestern said yes when other health systems said Andrew Wagner was not eligible to receive a new liver.
"I'm so happy because I thought he wasn't going to make it," Taevion Norris' mother said at the graduation ceremony.
A California man battling stage 4 lung cancer was preparing to fly across the country to Chicago for a life-changing double-lung transplant when his insurance company denied him coverage.
April is National Donate Life Month, emphasizing the importance of organ, eye and tissue donations.
There was a heartwarming reunion Wednesday at Advocate Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn.