Transplant recipient gets new chance at life: 'I feel so blessed to be alive'
by Jerry Davich, Post-Tribune
Jun 01, 2018
4 minutes
On March 22, Kelly Asbell had to be hospitalized again. She's been in a hospital bed ever since.
One day earlier, the Valparaiso mother of 10-year-old twins celebrated her 40th birthday - a milestone in her sickly life - by performing 40 acts of kindness for strangers.
I shadowed Asbell on her birthday as she delivered fresh tulips to an old woman in a nursing home, dropped off coins at a laundromat, put quarters into candy machines, left toys on a playground and juice boxes at a day care center, among other gestures.
"I wasn't expected to live
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