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Bowen was three months pregnant when a doctor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota warned that her unborn baby would drain important nutrients and put a strain on her failing kidneys. Three weeks from her due date, after 12 hours of induced labor, Bowen delivered a healthy baby, Brandon. As Brandon grew up, he watched his mother struggle with her illness. After years of painful treatments and numerous hospitalizations, her health was slipping away. He felt more and more helpless. He was fourteen when he first offered to donate a kidney but was told he was too young. His mother hoped that he would forget by the time he reached the legal age of 18, but Brandon did not forget for a moment. Recently, mother and child returned to the Mayo Clinic where he underwent surgery to give her a kidney and a chance to keep living. "We are going back to the same place that told us he would kill me and now he is giving me life again," said Brandon's mother before the surgery. Said Brandon, "I watched her getting weaker and weaker and wasting away. I knew that someday I would have to save my mom's life." (Arizona Republic, 5/31/01)
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