In her one year of life, Kaylee Rayburn experienced more medical procedures and hospital stays than some people do in a lifetime. Her medical testing and treatment began when she was only two days old.

Eight days later, Kaylee was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia- a condition of the liver that destroys bile ducts in newborns. This condition was causing her bile to flow into her bloodstream.

When Kaylee was only three weeks old, doctors attached part of her intestine to her liver to create a tube, in an attempt to reroute the bile. Yet this isn't always effective, and on January 29, 2001, Kaylee had a liver transplant at Integris Baptist Medical Center. Two weeks later, she went into respiratory failure. But this survivor wasn't about to be kept down- she bounced back.

Kaylee used three units of apheresis platelets, three units of apheresis fresh frozen plasma and 17 units of red blood cells. It took 23 generous donors to pull this little girl through.