22 year old Kristin Molini from Brooklyn has much to celebrate this year. Last spring, she almost died, but now she is busy ringing in the New Year with her loved ones, much healthier than ever before. What saved her were 5 new organs that were transplanted in her, all at one time, in a rare and highly complicated surgery.

Weighing merely 80 pounds, Kristin buys her double size 0 jeans in the kids section, but she feels that she is relatively healthy, after having lived most of the past decade under the shadow of death.

In 2003, Kristin contracted a rare disease called chronic intestinal in motility and she could not digest food. Every time she tried to eat, it was an excruciatingly painful experience. "I was curled over, huddled over, in a little ball with a heating pad on the couch, crying, just like in immense pain. Aching, twisting turning, terrible pain", she said.

For 4 years, she was fed through IV, and while it kept her alive, it created various other problems for her body, and that was when the rare 5 organ transplant surgery was needed.

The 13 hours long operation was carried out at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, and Kristin received a new liver stomach, pancreas, large and small intestine. The surgery was successful, and now with the New Year, she is hoping to live a much better life and aspires to work in the medical field.