If it weren’t for the kindness of a teenage boy, Nicholas Ramirez wouldn’t be alive.
Ramirez, 11, will be The Living Legacy Tee Kid at Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills. He will be joined not only by his family, but by the parents of his liver donor.
Sandra Ramirez was taking her son to the doctor for normal 2-month-old vaccines when she was told something was very, very wrong. Nicholas looked too yellow, and doctors diagnosed him with a rare (1 in 20,000) disease that would require a liver transplant.
The next 15 months were filled with a surgery and sickness before the Ramirez family finally got word that the liver donation they desperately needed was on the way.