Just a couple of months ago, a 24-year-old from Scottsdale with chronic kidney disease said he thought he found a donor, but there was a mix-up at a Valley hospital.

From life-saving surgery to nursing school, Nija Butler and her daughter Ambrealle Brown defy the odds together.

In places like Australia, where metropolitan areas are separated by an entire continent, donor hearts used to go unused simply because transplant teams couldn't get the organ to a recipient in time.