Patricia Chapman has been on dialysis for 3 years, and it took her 2 years to be healthy enough for a transplant. Her son, Frank Chapman is stationed in Oklahoma with the U.S. Army.  He wanted a transfer to North Central Florida, so he could donate his kidney.

  Chapman was tested and found to be a perfect match for his mother.  But the army did not allow him to donate his kidney-- saying that his blood pressure was too high.  That was.. until Thursday night.

  That's when the family received a phone call from the Army Surgeon General saying the transfer, and the transplant had been approved.

"It makes me feel very proud as a parent," says his mother Patricia Chapman. "He will fight to do the right thing."

  Frank Chapman and his family have been re-assigned to Dunnellon so that he can be with his mother during her recovery.  The operation is set for next week at Shands.