When she was only 10 weeks old, Wryn Graydon was diagnosed with Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome. 
 
 Instead of filtering out just the waste products, the Moody two-year-old's kidneys remove the good stuff too, which eventually leads to kidney failure. 
 
 The disease takes from Wryn's body what she needs to survive. 
 
 For the first 20 months of her life, Wryn was hooked up to a dialysis machine. 
 
 Wryn's parents say when they first found out about Wryn's condition, they felt like their dreams were crushed. 
 
 "It was very difficult. I mean, you want the best for your kid, and you realize they have health concerns. It was just hard to envision what our life would look like with what she had," said Wryn's mother Haley. 
 
 
 
 Neither Haley nor Wryn's father Michael were able to donate, so they went down the list of family members. 
 
 When the tests came back for Michael's father, they finally found hope for a match. 
 
 The next day, however, a call came back from the test center saying there was a mistake in the test. 
 
 Fortunately, Michaels' mother got her results back the same day as Michaels' father - and this time, the results were not a mistake. 
 
 "I was at work, and she came and told me so we obviously started 'boohoo' crying." said Michael. 
 
 
 
 Michael's mother donated her kidney to her granddaughter when the little girl was two years old. Doctors say the kidney was in the same shape as a kidney found in a 20-year-old. 
 
 "[Our family] was all that we had to reach out to, and she was so willing to sacrifice one of her kidneys for the health of our child," said Haley. 
 
 After successful surgeries, both Wryn and her grandmother are recovering, but one thing is stronger than ever - their bond. 
 
 "Just seeing her pop right out of that wheelchair, then [to] see her cry of sheer joy when she was able to see what her sacrifice was able to do for her granddaughter... she's an angel. She really is. The fact that she was willing to sacrifice her health for her grandchild is priceless,"said Haley. 
 
 
 
 ||||| A 2-year-old Alabama girl has a new lease on life thanks to a kidney donation from her 62-year-old grandmother, who was a perfect match. 
 
 Wryn Graydon of Moody, Alabama, was diagnosed at 2 months old with congenital nephrotic syndrome, a rare kidney disorder that the National Institutes of Health says is caused by genetic defects. 
 
 Wryn had both of her kidneys removed two months after the diagnosis and then was put on dialysis at home, her father, Michael Graydon, said. 
 
 As doctors waited for Wryn to be old enough and strong enough for a kidney transplant, her family wondered whether any among them would be able to donate their own kidney. 
 
 “Everybody wanted to be a match so bad,” Graydon told ABC News. “My wife [Haley] and I didn’t know who to choose to get tested first. I had kidney stones so I knew I wouldn’t be a possibility and my wife was the primary caregiver, so they wouldn’t let her do it.” 
 
 Graydon’s parents, Carol and Mike Graydon, were among the first family members to be tested. After extensive testing, it was Carol Graydon, 62, who came back as a perfect match for her granddaughter. 
 
 Michael Graydon 
 
 Carol Graydon’s good health -- she was told she had the kidneys of a 20-year-old -- allowed her to move forward as Wryn’s donor. 
 
 “Having a living and a related donor allowed us to schedule the transplant as quickly as possible,” said Dr. Dan Feig, division director of Pediatric Nephrology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who treated Wryn. “A very, very healthy 62-year-old is terrific so we were thrilled to be able to move forward.” 
 
 Graydon found out his mom could be Wryn’s kidney donor when Carol Graydon, who lives in the neighboring town of Springville, Alabama, surprised him at work to share the news. 
 
 “There are so many emotions that hit you,” he said. “We’re big believers in God so we trust in him. But from the medical side we know what can go wrong and this was my mom and daughter.” 
 
 Mike Graydon said his wife had "no hesitation" about being the donor for Wryn. 
 
 "There was no hesitation at all," he said. "There were concerns also but when you weigh being able to give the gift that will change Wryn’s life for many years to come, and also Michael’s and Haley’s." 
 
 Carol Graydon and Wryn underwent their kidney transplant last week at neighboring hospitals in Birmingham. While Graydon waited at the bedside of Wryn, his father texted him updates from Carol Graydon’s surgery. 
 
 Courtesy Michael Graydon 
 
 “He was sending me texts, ‘The incision is done. The kidney is out and headed your way,’” Graydon recalled. 
 
 After the nearly three-hour procedure, the kidney transplant between grandmother and granddaughter was declared a success. 
 
 “When my mom was able to come over in her wheelchair and see Wryn, it’s almost like they had some type of immediate connection,” Graydon said. “They were already close to begin with but Wryn just perked up that day and was very happy and laughing and being her normal self after seeing my mom.” 
 
 Michael Graydon 
 
 Mike Graydon said his wife was "adamant" about seeing Wryn quickly post-transplant, and described the emotions of it all. 
 
 "The first time I saw her, and I wasn’t even the donor, I had to back away because it’s just so much emotion," he said. "I had to gather myself before I went back to her." 
 
 Wryn is awaiting discharge from the hospital and then will go home to live a normal life, without the constraints of dialysis. An average kidney transplant lasts 15 years so Wryn will likely need another transplant but is now doing “terrifically well,” Dr. Feig said. 
 
 Carol Graydon is now recovering at home and dealing with a side effect of being a kidney donor, exhaustion. But the family is also bracing for a positive side effect from Wryn’s receiving a kidney: energy. 
 
 “We’re excited about it but also scared,” Graydon said of him and his wife, who also have a 5-year-old daughter. “She was already our wild child.”
– It's not every day that a grandmother is called on to save her grandchild's life, but when the day came for Carol Graydon, who is 62, to do just that, she didn't hesitate. Her granddaughter, Wryn Graydon, was diagnosed at two months of age with congenital nephrotic syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that would lead to kidney failure, reports ABC 3340. Doctors removed both of her kidneys and put her on dialysis at home, waiting for the infant to get big and strong enough for a transplant, reports ABC News. As they waited, "Everybody wanted to be a match so bad," the girl's father, Michael Graydon, says. Turns out, Michael's mother was. "Having a living and a related donor allowed us to schedule the transplant as quickly as possible," says the doctor who treated Wryn in Birmingham, Ala. The doctors say a "very, very healthy" Carol Graydon has the kidneys of a 20-year-old, though Wryn—who is now 2 and just successfully underwent surgery, as the family reports on Facebook—will likely need another transplant in 15 years. For now, Carol Graydon is recovering at home and exhausted, which is common for kidney donors, while Wryn is expected to have a new bounce in her step—not to mention be able to live life off a dialysis machine. "We're excited about it but also scared," says Michael Graydon; he and wife Haley also have a 5-year-old. "She was already our wild child." (This woman donated her kidney to a boy she'd only just met.)