It's the gift of life times two. Innovative technology allowed North Texas doctors to use one donated liver for two different transplant patients.
It wasn't long after Luna Sifuentes' birth that her parents felt something was wrong.
"They say jaundice kind of comes of goes," Ashtin Sifuentes said.
The jaundice didn't go away, and Luna's mom, Ashtin, noticed more issues.
"One day her poop just went from like a bright, sunny, breastfed yellow to a straight cement gray like overnight," Ashtin Sifuentes said.
Doctors diagnosed Luna with end-of-life liver failure and biliary atresia, a liver condition where bile ducts are absent or blocked.
"We were running out of time," Samuel Sifuentes said.
"She would need a transplant sooner than later because she was already had about 75% cirrhosis

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