This Daughter's Father's Day Gift Puts Ties and Cologne to Shame

As John Gossett’s kidneys failed him, his daughters devised a plan.They had seen him suffer before and couldn’t bear to see it happen again.Diabetes had taken a toll on the longtime cardiac nurse’s body and caused his kidneys to fail when his girls were young. Their mom would take them to visit him in the hospital in between soccer tryouts.After waiting two years for a donor kidney, he had a successful transplant in 2007, but complications eventually caused the donor kidney to start failing in 2016. He had to put his 38-year-long career at Baylor Scott & White Health on hold.  Continue reading...

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