NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — When Amanda DaSilva first received news of her son's diagnosis, she never imagined that they would be graced with a miracle less than a year later.

The pair first spoke to 12 News back in April. They described the nightmare of 19-year-old Michael Blechar-Melacon being diagnosed with stage five kidney failure, a disease that required him to go through eight to eleven hours of dialysis daily, while he waited on kidney transplant lists in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

"I can't bury my son," DaSilva told 12 News at the time. "I just can't."

Her plea for help struck a chord with 39-year-old Stephanie Joly, a Massachusetts Department of Children and Families worker in New Bedford.

"It just breaks my heart to hear any parent have to plead that their child de

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