After waiting on the transplant list for 444 days, Gastonia mother Sarah Granados finally got the call she had been praying for: she would be receiving a rare multi-organ transplant.

It's a procedure doctors say happens less than 100 times a year and Granados was one of the lucky few.

“I’m here, I’m alive, and by all measures it was successful," Granados said.

The multi-organ transplant provided her a new stomach, pancreas, small and large intestine. But for a successful procedure like this, doctors say it all comes down to ideal timing and technique to remove all the organs at once then transplant them together.

“So it had to be really the perfect donor and a good size match, blood type match and tissue match to do this transplant," Indiana University Health transplant surgeon Dr. Richard Mangus said.

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