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Tyler Perry buys car for mother of boy born without kidneys

A Georgia mother whose toddler has been waiting for a kidney transplant his whole life was gifted a car on Tuesday -- hours before a kidney donor was found.

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Carmellia Burgess brought her son home from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta on Nov. 8, where he’d been since Oct. 29.

Burgess's son, AJ, battled a potentially deadly infection, contracted pneumonia, had surgery to implant a new port for his dialysis treatments and received blood transfusions before he was released from the hospital, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.

But his mother didn’t have a car to get AJ to his hemodialysis appointments three times a week, she wrote on Facebook.

That trouble ended Tuesday, when actor Tyler Perry gifted Burgess with a new car.

OMGG..IM SOO OVERJOYED😅..I WAS IN TEARS..THANK YOU TYLER PERRY(MADEA) FOR BLESSING/BUYING MY KIDS&&I A NEW CAR🙌🏾..WE ARE FOREVER GRATEFUL🙌🏾..I LOVE YOU I LOVE I LOVE YOU😘😘 #BLESSED‼️#KIDNEY4AJ

Posted by Mellia Burgess on Tuesday, November 21, 2017

The family later learned a deceased donor kidney would be given to AJ this week, attorney Mawuli Davis said.