An ICU nurse from Georgia adopted a 27-year-old man with autism so he could get a life-saving heart transplant.
Jonathan Wood was at work one day last year when he fell. He went to Piedmont Newman Hospital and was told he needed a heart transplant.
But he wasn’t able to meet the requirements. Luckily, he met nurse Lori Wood, when she was assigned to him in the hospital in December 2018.
“Jonathan was very sick, but he wasn’t eligible for a transplant because he didn’t have a support system,”
Some of the requirements to getting a transplant is that the patient is responsible enough to protect their health and take any needed medications, Pinkard had been in and out of the hospital for a few months and often stayed at a men’s shelter.
His grandmother passed away in 2012, and he said his mother is in rehab. Wood knew she had to get involved.
Two days after meeting him, she asked if she could be his legal guardian... WATCH NOW
