AUGUSTA, Ga. - A well known WGAC-AM reporter is cherishing his health and life with his family this year.

That's after Scott Hudson was rushed to the hospital for a rare illness that almost killed him last September.

"I'm looking at the pictures of my child thinking I'm never going to see her again, this is it," said Scott Hudson.

It's something he couldn't believe was happening--nurses were surrounding him, pushing oxygen into his lungs, trying to keep him alive.

It all started one Friday in September. What Scott and his wife Stacy thought was a week-long flu, would soon become the fight for his life.

"When he called and said he had a virus earlier that week, I thought it would pass and there was no way of knowing how sick he really was," said his wife Stacey.

"We went to the emergency room and from there it was just all down hill,” said Scott.

Scott says it was literally a race against time for doctors at University Hospital to find out what was happening to his body.

"They tested me for everything from AIDS to West Nile and couldn't figure out what it was," said Scott.

Scott says the fever already had spiked to 105 degrees and his vital organs slowly started shutting down.

Doctors had to resuscitate him numerous times.

"It wasn't until that moment that it hit me that he might not make it," said Stacey.

It turns out Scott's doctors believe he suffered from a rare and dangerous autoimmune disorder known as TTP or Moschcowitz disease.

Scott needed to go through plasmapheresis, a procedure where plasma is separated from the blood, allowing new plasma to be entered into the body.

From there, Stacey and Scott said it was a touch-and-go situation.

Scott Hudson spent nearly three weeks at University hospital, mostly in a coma. That left his wife Stacey, not only worried about her husband but also what to tell their daughter, especially if his condition became worse.

"I knew if I had to tell her that her father wasn't coming home, it would be very difficult for her," said Stacey.

Stacey wouldn't have to break that news to their daughter Emerson.

With the help of about 200 people donating blood, so doctors could use the plasma, Scott survived.

"If that blood had not been there, Scott would not have made it," said Stacey.

"It's the plasmapheresis that was somehow miraculously able to cure me," said Scott.

Because of that near death experience, Scott and his family think of life in a much different way.

"Every day I wake up thinking what can I do because tomorrow may not come and that's true for everybody," said Scott.

Scott and his family thank Shepeard Community Blood Center and all the donors who helped supply him with the blood he desperately needed.

You can learn more about Scott's story in this week's edition of Parent Magazine, which is on shelves now.