ARLINGTON - Most of you no doubt remember the story of the Grapevine baseball player struck and killed by a baseball two and half weeks ago.

His death means life for a local mother.

Fatima Brown's daughter can't remember a time when her mother wasn't sick.

Brown found out her kidneys were failing when her daughter was in kindergarten.

She remembers explaining dialysis to the five-year-old.

"I wanted her to know, look, this is what's wrong with mommy, so she would know."

For five years, Brown juggled nursing school and a full-time job with 12 hours of dialysis.

Then, a little more than two weeks ago, she got the call.

"I had been waiting for that call for a long time."

Southwest Transplant Alliance had found a kidney.

Doctors at first said only that the donor was young, athletic and died from a head injury.

"But while we were in the waiting room that's when I saw it - [the story about him]."

Chris was Chris Gavora, the Grapevine High School baseball player, killed when a line drive hit his head during practice.

"You can never replace your child, and that's something his mama is going to have to live with. I hate that."

As the community prepared to lay Gavora to rest, Fatima Brown prepared for surgery.

When she woke up, it was not just to a new kidney, but a new world: One free from dialysis, free from pain and full of possibility.

"Chris, that's my angel, that's my angel. God sent him for me," she said.

Brown is looking forward to working as a nurse and to educating the public about organ donation.

But she's also looking forward to something smaller, simpler. For two years, she's had neither the time nor the strength to take her daughter to her favorite place - Six Flags.

Now, she says, she finally has both.