Sarah Granados has a new lease on life after undergoing a life-saving, multi-organ transplant, and was finally able to reunite with her family after 100 days of recovery.
The mom of three from Gastonia, North Carolina, had been unable to eat solid foods for more than ten years due to a rare condition.
Photo: YouTube/Good Morning AmericaGranados has Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, an inherited connective tissue disorder that can cause gastrointestinal dysfunction.
In 2012, Granados had to have her gallbladder removed, and has faced life-threatening medical complications ever since, due to her condition.
Photo: YouTube/Good Morning America Since she couldn’t eat solid foods, she needed a feeding tube, which she would be on for six years.
She was then diagnosed with severe gastroparesis, which is a disorder that slows or stops movement of food from your stomach to your small intestine.
Photo: YouTube/Good Morning America In 2018, she underwent a gastrectomy to remove her stomach and part of her small intestines. Unfortunately, she had even more complications after this surgery, whittled to intestinal failure.
Granados’ doctor told her if she didn’t receive a gastrointestinal system transplant, she would most likely only live for a few more years. With her family in mind, Granados knew the latter was not an option, but she was so physically and mentally tired for fighting for so many years.
Photo: YouTube/Good Morning America Thankfully, she finally caught a break, and after waiting more than 400 days on the transplant waiting list, she finally received the phone call that a perfect match had been found for her with a stomach, pancreas and small and large intestines.
Granados underwent the multi-organ transplant, which took ten hours by several different doctors.
Photo: YouTube/Good Morning America “I can’t change that they had an untimely death, but I truly believe that there are angels that are made to save other people,” she told Good Morning America. “And in my case, the doctors were saying there was a one-in-a-million chance, so I’m very fortunate that I got my one-in-a-million.”
“There’s not an hour that goes by that I’m not very keenly aware that I’m now carrying somebody else,” she continued. “It’s a privilege but it’s also something I take very, very seriously.”
Photo: YouTube/Good Morning America Granados hopes her story will encourage others to become organ donors.
During her recovery, Granados surprised her husband and kids at a park after being apart from them for 100 days.
Hear her story and watch the heartwarming reunion in the video below:
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