NATALIE COLE RECEIVES LIFE SAVING KIDNEY TRANSPLANT SISTER CAROL”COOKIE” COLE DIES FROM LUNG CANCER0 comments

This is so sad. We send our heartfelt condolences to Natalie Cole and pray for her full recovery.

NATALIE Cole has just had the most heart-wrenching week of her life.

As Nat King Cole’s Grammy Award-winning daughter, who’s suffering from kidney disease, sat comforting her dying sister, Carol “Cookie” Cole, she got a frantic call from doctors saying that a kidney from a 22-year-old patient had become available and that she could receive a life-saving transplant immediately.

As Cole — who was battling hepatitis C from a past drug addiction and needed kidney dialysis three times a week — was undergoing transplant surgery a few hours later, her older sister passed away.

“This is all so surreal, and it is devastating,” Natalie’s younger sister, Timolin Cole, told Page Six yesterday.

“Our sister Cookie hadn’t been to a doctor in 30 years, and last week she went in and they found a cancerous spot on her lung. They had wanted to start chemo right away, but Cookie said no.”

Natalie quickly rushed to Cookie’s side, expecting to comfort her to the end.

“Natalie was there with her at her bedside at 4 in the morning on Monday, and she got a phone call from her doctors that a kidney was ready for her,” Timolin related.

“She said, ‘What do you mean? I can’t deal with that right now! I’m here with my dying sister!’ And they said to her, ‘No, ma’am. We’ve got to do it now. You’ve got to be at Cedars-Sinai in two hours.’

“I told her, ‘Natalie, this is God’s gift, and you’ve got to go now. Cookie would want this for you.’ ”

Cole relented and rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The transplant was, mercifully, a success, and she’s expected to go home over the weekend. [NYP]

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