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Ex-News 12 reporter Amy McGorry has found a donor. Instagram\/amymcgorrynews<\/p>\n
Ex-News 12 reporter Amy McGorry, whose search for a match was covered by her former network and other outlets, discovered the organ donation on Monday while teaching her class at Long Island University.<\/p>\n
It sparked a tear-jerking moment with her students.<\/p>\n
\u201cI learned the news while teaching my health science class at LIU \u2013 last day of class and told kids who have been through this with me and they all clapped,\u201d she told The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was so cute.\u201d<\/p>\n
McGorry, 56, has long battled two rare diseases \u2013 autoimmune hepatitis and primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) \u2013 that have degraded her liver to the point that she needs a donor with O-positive blood.<\/p>\n
Her medical emergency reached an ominous stage about six months ago when she passed out and was hospitalized, The Post reported in March. <\/p>\n
She was told in February that she needed a new liver because she was suffering dangerous internal bleeding.<\/p>\n
The donor wants to remain anonymous leading up to June\u2019s scheduled transplant surgery, but the good Samaritan is a News 12 viewer who watched a segment about McGorry\u2019s health crisis.<\/p>\n
The viewer went through a series of tests to confirm he or she would be able to donate the liver, McGorry said.<\/p>\n
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The surgery is scheduled for June. Instagram\/amymcgorrynews<\/p>\n
\u201cThey would be giving me a new lease on life,\u201d McGorry said about a potential donor in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to get this done and eventually put all of this behind me and live normally.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ex-journalist has also become an advocate for other patients in similar situations.<\/p>\n
She traveled to Washington DC in April to push for the Living Donor Protection Act \u2013 a bill that would strengthen protections and close gaps that leave organ donors without job-protected leave during recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t underestimate the power of the press. A former Long Island television reporter in desperate need of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5236,776,57,9,11,10,22359],"class_list":["post-220532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-diseases","tag-long-island","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-organ-donation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220532","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=220532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}