Surrogate Nurse Has Baby For High School Classmate From Years Ago

LANSING, MI — Nurses across America have put their lives on the line all year working with coronavirus patients. One healthcare worker in Michigan took it a step further, stepping in as a surrogate for an old high school friend who she had lost touch with more than a dozen years ago.

Christy Acevedo was on Facebook when she noticed a callout for Katy Sanchez, someone she graduated from high school with in 2007, a report from FOX 47 News describes. Sanchez needed a surrogate mother to have her baby due to her taking part in a clinical trial connected to her cancer diagnoses.

“I just felt this undeniable calling from God; that’s the best way I can describe it,” Acevedo, a nurse at McLaren Greater Lansing in the state's capital, told the news station. “My husband and I talked about how blessed we were to have our two girls and the opportunity to give that to someone else. We realized the sacrifice it would be, but also that it was a short time in our lives to forever change theirs.”

Sanchez is now celebrating not only three years without a reoccurrence of cancer, but the birth of her daughter. One of baby Sanchez' two middle names is Christina, in honor of the woman who gave birth to her.

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