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My husband Steve had a massive heart attack almost 3 years ago this month on March 30th 2014. He was 58 years old. He didn’t survive. I worked with the hospital nursing staff to donate his organs. I wanted to bring hope and the possibility of life to others in the wake of
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I dated the love of my life for four years and two days before we were to be married, he ended up in a hospital ER. We got married later that day with our combined children present in his room at St. Mary’s & Elizabeth Hospital, room 319. It was the best wedding ever! Two
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My story is simple, I believe in helping people. My parents instilled in me a giving nature. I believe that we should help one another. God gave me two kidneys, and lucky for me, mine were healthy, so I became a living Kidney Donor. I wish that more people would donate, so that so many
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My wife, Jennifer, was diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in the spring of 2011 and was placed on the waiting list for a double lung transplant in July of 2015. Her disease progressed rapidly, and a few days before Thanksgiving of 2015, she was hospitalize with acute respiratory failure. As the days and weeks passed,
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The mission of organ donation means to me that there are some wonderful ,beautiful.,caring human beings that will put forth time and effort to help the cycle of life continue. I want the public to know that organ donation is a God’s gift for the donor and a miracle for the recipient. I truly and
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My name is Pastor Mike Olsen, I am a pastor in Louisville Kentucky. I’m dying of a terminal lung disease called IPF ( Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis). I have never smoked, it is just a rare scarring of my lungs. Im on a double lung transplant list at Jewish Hospital Heart and Lung Trager Transplant Center
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I was placed on the liver transplant list in 2007 and was blessed to receive my liver in 2013. During my long wait, the Lord impressed on me to pray for my donor and my donor’s family, so I prayed each day for them. After my transplant I sent a card to my donor’s
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His story is our story. My husband Don began his journey into transplant when we had only been married a few short years. In 1985 Don developed glomerulonephritis and became very sick. At the time we were living our version of the American Dream; two small children, an active church life, a house, careers and
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I started having problems with my heart in 2012. I had two heart attacks 23 days apart in January of that year. As time went on I ended up with 7 stints. Then in July of 2014 I had a massive heart attack and heart failure. I spent 15 days in the hospital. After getting
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I was a Human Resources Director for a major coal company for 18 years. I also have been a guitar player and singer for many years. One day I was at work and just simply forgot how to operate a computer and print off a document! And a while later I went into an episode
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