Illinois Dad Loses 40 Pounds To Become Liver Donor For Infant Daughter With Biliary Atresia
By Lizette Borreli | Dec 26, 2013 06:53 PM EDT

An Illinois father found the best motivation to lose weight: his infant daughter. Thirty-five-year-old Eduardo Camargo lost more than 40 lbs. in less than two months to become an eligible liver donor for his daughter Jazlyn, who was diagnosed with Biliary atresia — a condition in which a liver's bile ducts are blocked or absent. Shortly after birth, at just 5 months old, doctors at the Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern Memorial Hospital confirmed Jazlyn needed a liver transplant or else she would be at high risk for liver failure and death, ABC News reports. That's when Eduardo took action.