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If it were not for Organ Donation, my brother, one of my sisters and myself, most likely, would not be here today. All three of us had to have Kidney Transplants due to Polycystic Kidney Disease. My sister and I both had living donors and my brother was saved by a deceased donor. -Kenneth Blankenship
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I was a very active and busy full time practicing psychiatrist in excellent health for 21 years prior to developing heart failure. This forced me to close my practice. I had enjoyed family, swimming, mountain biking, scuba diving and boating. My symptoms began in 2010 with fatigue and some shortness of breath when walking rapidly or
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Andrew was an awesome young man of just eleven years – a short life was filled with love for everyone he knew. His eyes were crystal blue and now they shine as stars in the night. He had a laugh that everyone wished they had, one that could make your belly hurt and a smile
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Imagine lying in bed at night, trying to scratch an itch that you can’t reach. Until a life-saving liver transplant in 2012, Anna lived daily with this and the many other uncomfortable symptoms associated with biliary atresia, an end stage liver disease. Even though Anna was born healthy, a virus attacked her liver, and caused
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Natasha was a caring, loving, giving – very unselfish beautiful daughter. Always wore a smile – she lit up a room and a laugh that you would always remember. She told me when she was in nursing school she wanted to be a donor. I have been able to tell Tasha’s story and make people
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Megan understands firsthand the importance of organ donor registries and the “gift of Life.” She received a lifesaving liver transplant in March of 2009, and has spent much of her free time since then, educating others about the importance of donation, and honoring her donor. “I encourage everyone to sign up for the registry. It’s
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My daughter Jessica was diagnosed at the age of 2 months with Cystic Fibrosis. A fatal genetic disease. At the age of 19 she was listed to receive a double lung transplant. Her quality of life had really deteriorated after losing 20 pounds her first semester at college. She was, and still is, a fighter
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My transplant experience really begins nearly 18 years ago when my oldest sister, Diane, underwent a liver transplant. She was very near death but, by the grace of God, a donor was found just in time. I had not signed my donor card prior to her transplant because I couldn’t stand the thought of being
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The illness I had made it so easy to let myself become isolated because it affected my eating, something that is often connected to social activities which became more difficult to participate in as I had so easily in the past. I had to learn to overcome that tendency to withdraw from society as a
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Being an organ donor had been discussed in our house in passing, but nothing formal had been done by either my husband or myself. Both of us wanted and planned to be organ donors when we were old and probably not good candidates! So, when my husband passed away unexpectedly at the young age of
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