{"id":852383,"date":"2020-02-11T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=852383"},"modified":"2020-02-12T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:00:05","slug":"east-texan-to-donate-kidney-to-long-time-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=852383","title":{"rendered":"East Texan to Donate Kidney to Long Time Neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/02\/Longview-man-donates-kidney-to-neighbor-of-19-years.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-852384\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; Ashley Bridwell was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease called Cystinosis when she was just 16-months-old. Since Bridewll was 2 years old, she has had to take 75 pills every day to maintain her health. According to our news partner KETK, recently she&#8217;s been waiting for a kidney match and a conversation at her mailbox is where she found a miracle. Ronnie Cox has been Bridwell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s neighbor for almost 2 decades, and now they will share an even bigger bond as he prepares to donate a kidney to Bridewell. Cox is a truck driver and will not be able to work during the transition, a GoFundMe page has been set up to help.  You can donate by clicking the link.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/living-kidney-donor-for-neighbor\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/living-kidney-donor-for-neighbor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Ashley Bridwell was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease called Cystinosis when she was just 16-months-old. Since Bridewll was 2 years old, she has had to take 75 pills every day to maintain her health. According to our news partner KETK, recently she&#8217;s been waiting for a kidney match and a conversation at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=852383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texan to Donate Kidney to Long Time Neighbor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":852384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 12:08:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=852383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852385,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852383\/revisions\/852385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/852384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}