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>> My name is Katrina Wade I’m 37 years old
and I have been waiting for a kidney for 3-years If I don’t get a kidney I will either be
on dialysis my whole life or I will die As a parent and mom I think about my kids
not growing up with a mother, that my husband will be stuck with four little girls
As human beings we are all looking to do something for someone else or give something to someone
else and an organ donation would be a way that you could still keep on giving after
you die and it would live on in somebody else.
>>The decision to become an organ donor is perhaps the greatest and most selfless decisions
a person can make. Just one person’s organs help 6 or 7 people, and there are not a lot
of opportunities in this life where you can actually have that
>>Jason had so much to offer and yet didn’t have the gift of time.
Jason came back from Seattle and he decided to tell me that he wanted to be an organ donor.
In fact it was on his license, and I thought – I’m very proud of you.
On July 31st of that month we got the call that Jason had had a terrible accident.
Jason had said that we wants to be an organ donor, so we know exactly what he wanted us
to do. It’s the right thing to do. It’s the humanitarian
thing to do.
>>Laura was my third daughter. She was a special kid. Her life was a challenge, physically,
emotionally being sick going to the doctor’s all the time.
There is a huge hole in our family.
I think I want people to know how badly organs are needed to save people’s lives.
You are so much more likely to need a transplant than to be able to be a donor, and by checking
the box you can give somebody else a second chance at life.
>>I’m Jim Boyd, becoming an organ donor is very easy. All you have to do is check
the yes box.
>>Caitlin ah she is just a happy go lucky kid. She loves life. She was very very sick
though and she almost didn’t make it. I mean she was actually taken off the transplant
list for a while because she was too sick to receive a transplant. They kept her alive,
they kept her healthy enough until a liver became available for her.
Caitlin’s donor’s name was Jeff, and he was 22.
Caitlin has a framed photograph of him in her bedroom ion a shelf and we have that candle
burning in our window that is in honor of him. It is lit.
Life is truly a precious gift. It really is, and we are so fortunate that Caitlin got a
second chance.
Because I couldn’t image life without her!