KYLE VAN HOOK TO MAKE LIFE-SAVING DONATION TO GRANDSON

  

A longtime local coach and voice that can be heard on KWHI football broadcasts will be helping save his grandson’s life, next week.

Next Wednesday morning, Kyle Van Hook, currently a scout for the Cleveland Indians, will check himself into St. Luke's Health at the Texas Medical Center, where he will donate a kidney to his 20-month old grandson Briscoe.

Briscoe was born in December 2015, with polycystic kidney disease, a condition in which cysts develop inside the kidney, causing them to fail.  He spent the first four months of his life in the hospital, and has been hooked to a dialysis machine around 11 hours daily for every day of his young life.

If all goes as planned, the kidney will be working inside Briscoe approximately 30 minutes after it has been removed from his grandfather, giving Briscoe a chance to be a healthy, happy and completely normal little boy.

Briscoe’s father, Clay, was a star quarterback at Brenham High School and an All-Big 12 baseball player at Texas, which won the College World Series in 2005.  He has been an assistant coach at Rice until recently when he accepted an assistant coaching job at the University of Oklahoma.

Clay and his wife Selena also have an older daughter, Avery.

Clay says last spring when friends and family members began being tested for compatibility, Kyle would have none of it, saying Kyle insisted it would be him giving Briscoe a kidney.

Briscoe will be hospitalized at least a couple of weeks as his body adjusts to his grandfather’s kidney.

A link to an in-depth story on Van Hook’s donation can be found here: http://m.indians.mlb.com/news/article/247402382/indians-scout-kyle-van-hook-to-donate-kidney/?tcid=fb_share