Mom finds liver donor for 3-year-old daughter on Facebook

A 3-year-old girl made medical history after being the first to receive a liver transplant to cure an extremely rare metabolic disease that has been diagnosed in only eight people.

Donya McCoy's is the mother of 3-year-old Kennedy Stevenson who has a rare metabolic disease and is only one of eight people in the world to be diagnosed with the condition.

In a desperate bid for help, Donya McCoy posted a message on Facebook, sharing her daughters dire situation. Miraculously, one of her old high school friends Michael Thompson, saw the post and felt the urge to reach out and try to help the little girl. 

"A guy I went to high school with messaged me and said, 'I have O positive blood,'" McCoy recalled, according to the New York Daily News. 

Thompson was serious, pointing out that he didn't think the reality had sunk in for McCoy until they started the steps. During the testing process, Thompson turned out to be a match, qualifying him as a liver donor.

"One of the greatest things I will probably do in my life, give more life to another human," Thompson, who donated 25% of his liver, wrote on his Facebook page in October. "Thank you, Donya McCoy, for letting me."

The transplant surgery took place at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and lasted 8 hours with four surgeons, two anesthesiologists and two nurses. Kennedy, received the transplant on Tuesday after months of waiting and being turned down by several doctors, according to Yahoo! News.

Kennedy will spend a few months in the hospital, but she's "tough," McCoy said. Afterward, the hope is that Kennedy can resume a normal diet.