"When he was 5 1/2, we got the news that they had a kidney for him," Coleman's mother says. Coleman's body quickly took to the new kidney and he quickly recovered in kind. "Two weeks after he had his surgery he was standing on his head," she recalls. Coleman himself concurred in a segment of archival audio: "Even when I was 5, I was the do or die, never say die, 'I'll be back' kind of person. That was the kind of kid I was."
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