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27-Year-Old Woman Waiting for Crucial Organ Transplants Meets Rob Gronkowski
April 3, 2018
New England Patriots player Rob Gronkowski fulfilled the wish of a heart transplant patient by surprising her in the hospital. Lauren Meizo, 27, was awaiting her second heart transplant, and the football star and his brother, Gordie, paid her a visit after she made a plea on social media to meet him. Meizo is a patient at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and has been there for 85 days. She is also awaiting a kidney transplant. In her video, she said her “one wish” was to meet Gronkowski.