Patients, parents and volunteers dance and play during a holiday party for transplant recipients at Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children on Saturday. / DANIEL SATO/The News Journal
In so many ways it looked like a traditional holiday party – festive balloons, dancing, plenty of sweet treats and even a visit from the big man in red.
But for the families who gathered at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, there was another reason to celebrate the season – their children are thriving thanks to a life-saving organ transplant.
Children like Onyi Kenine, a bright-eyed 9-year-old from Wilmington who would have sparkled even without her blinking holiday headband. Onyi was 5 months old when she had a liver transplant.
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