Local man needs new kidney after having three removed

CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Clayton County man is in desperate need of a kidney after having three removed.

"I'm hoping and praying it's going to come real soon. (It would) be a wonderful Christmas present," Randy Daniel said.

Doctors had to remove Randy Daniels kidneys, a donated kidney, and his appendix the day before Thanksgiving.

He contracted the west Nile virus years ago and that caused his donated kidney to fail.

Doctors told Daniels all three kidneys had to come out.

He is now on dialysis and just hoping for a Christmas miracle.

Daniel, who is blood type O+, is on the transplant list at Piedmont Hospital. See his Facebook page here for more information.

He said even if you are not a match for him, you may be a match for someone else and that's what he and his wife would love to see.

Daniel has been featured, along with hundreds of others in need of a kidney, on the Facebook page Callaway's Angels, which was started last year by the wife of a Greensboro police officer who received a kidney through a social media campaign.

WSBTV