An ICU nurse from Georgia adopted a patient who needs medical treatment to save his life.
A 27-year-old man named Jonathan Pinkard fell sick last year and doctors in Piedmont Newman Hospital informed him that he needed a heart transplant.
Also, Doctors told Pinkard who is on Autism that he doesn’t meet the requirements for a transplant, ”since one of the conditions is having a support system in place for post-operation recovery,” reported PEOPLE website.
Pinkard said: ”I was born and raised with my grandmother, and she passed away in 2012,”
”My mother, she’s in a rehab facility, and she can’t do much.”
A nurse named Lori Wood was hired to take care of Pinkard during his stay at Piedmont. Lori empathized the condition of Pinkard and decided to adopt him so he can fulfill the requirements for a life-saving heart transplant.
Wood said: ”At some point, you know, God places people in situations in your life and you have a choice to do something about it,”
”I guess for me, with this situation, there was no choice.”
After two days of meeting him, Wood asked Pinkard to become his legal guardian.
”I had a room, I was a nurse, I could take care of him,” she recalled. ”It wasn’t really anything I struggled about. It was just something that had to happen. He had to come home with me.”
”I had to help him. It was a no-brainer,” Wood told TODAY.
”He would have died without the transplant.”
According to TODAY, Pinkard’s transplant has been done successfully and he has been moved in with Wood who takes care of him. She carries him to doctor’s appointments and also teaching him to live independently.
”Jonathan has his chair, and I have my chair,” Wood told Today. ”We like game shows and high-five back and forth if we get an answer right. He is very loving.”
”She treats me like one of her sons,” Pinkard told Today. ”I truly thankful for that.”
”It’s kind of emotional, but at the same time, this has been a life journey for me,” he said in the hospital’s video. ”If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t be the person I am today.”
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