{"id":220346,"date":"2026-05-05T05:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:47:36","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-news-12-viewer-a-liver-donor-match-for-former-news-12-reporter-amy-mcgorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220346\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | News 12 Viewer A Liver Donor Match For Former News 12 Reporter Amy Mcgorry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Former News 12 reporter Amy McGorry has found her perfect living liver donor match &#8211; and she says it\u2019s all thanks to <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/former-news-12-reporter-amy-mcgorry-searching-for-living-liver-donor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News 12\u2019s coverage of her story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">McGorry told News 12 that an acquaintance of the family saw the segment and reached out after learning about her long struggle with two chronic liver diseases. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The viewer, who is currently anonymous, quietly went through the testing process and discovered they were a perfect match. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They later called McGorry with the news, which she then shared with her former newsroom.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The surgery is scheduled for June.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">McGorry has spent most of her life living with autoimmune hepatitis and primary biliary cholangitis, also known as PBC, both conditions that cause permanent liver damage.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In March, her health began to rapidly decline. She suffered sudden fainting spells and internal bleeding, prompting doctors to tell her she urgently needed a liver transplant. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">From that moment, the race to find a donor began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former News 12 reporter Amy McGorry has found her perfect living liver donor match &#8211; and she says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-220346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}