She begged strangers, but no donors stepped up to save her son. Now, she hopes to save other children’s lives — and maybe her own.

“To have to go around and beg, and that’s literally what you have to do, you have to beg,” she said. “A lack of knowledge made people stand back and say, ‘I don’t want to do that,’ or, ‘I can’t do that, that’s going to hurt.’ That’s the first thing that you hear.”