NEW JERSEY (WABC) — There is an urgent plea from a family in Morris County, New Jersey, to find a kidney donor for a 14-year-old boy whose only remaining kidney is failing, and doctors say he needs a transplant as soon as possible.
Harley hit the jackpot two years ago when 14-year-old Thaddeus Giansanti skipped school to adopt him, making the rescue pup the newest member of the family.
“He was just very playful… he was very sweet. So yeah,” Giansanti said.
Eyewitness News sat down with Giansanti and his parents Carlo and Christa as they spoke about their son.
“He volunteers at school. He volunteers at church. He even volunteered at the food bank this summer,” said Thaddeus’ mother Christa Giansanti.
“The person who steps up and helps him would be helping a really great kid,” said Thaddeus’ father Carlo Giansanti.
The 14-year-old desperately needs a new kidney. It’s a battle he has fought even before he was born.
His best-case scenario for his best life possible is a living donor.
No one in the family is a match, and that’s why the close-knit Morris County family, filled with faith, is stepping out of their quiet comfort zone to ask for help.
“He’s not only a great kid, he has a great future and you’d be a part of that,” Carlo Giansanti said.
Below you can find more information on Thaddeus’ circumstances, and a QR code that takes you to a site through Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to see if you might be a match.
Recent blood work reveals the teen needs a new kidney as soon as possible.
“I mean right now nothing too terrible is happening, but I would really like, it because even though nothing terrible is happening, my life is way worse than it was before,” Thaddeus Giansanti said.
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