It's a transplant surgery that few people realize is possible but it's been done at Cleveland Clinic for several years.
Senior health correspondent Monica Robins reports on a man who had his intestines transplanted to not only save his life but allow him to truly live it.
Kevin and Amy Decker are from Alabama. They moved to Cleveland in January for one reason -- to save Kevin's life.
Kevin started suffering from ulcerative colitis in 1998. By 2011, his small intestine was dead.
"So they had removed everything but a hundred centimeters of my small intestine and gave me something called short bowel syndrome," he said.
Kevin could no longer eat. He survived with artificial nutrition fed through a tube. But no one can eat like that for long.
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