Bijou Phillips
Miracle Match!!!
Receives Life-Saving ‘Perfect’ Kidney
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Bijou Phillips is out of the woods after a dire health scare … because she finally got a kidney transplant.
The singer and model posted the positive health update on social media Tuesday … along with snaps of her beaming in the hospital after the operation, saying her brother donated a kidney and got the ball rolling.
Bijou says her brother’s donation sparked a domino effect that led to her finding a “perfect match” for a new kidney.
She explained … “He saved a life, and the life he saved had a special person donate for them, and then a few weeks later! The voucher program found me a perfect match!”
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As we first reported … Bijou was born with underdeveloped kidneys and spent the first three months of her life on dialysis in the NICU. She’s battled kidney disease ever since. In 2017, she received a kidney transplant from a friend, but that kidney failed.
When she made her most recent plea for help, more than 1,000 people stepped up to donate … but none at the time were a match, and the situation was getting more serious by the day.
Bijou is praising her UCLA doctors, saying … “I feel at five days out like I did four months after my last surgery!”