Source: WDAF Fox 4KC
KANSAS CITY, MO. - A Kansas City man is alive thanks to an organ donation. During the month of April, organ donation registries raise awareness to the need. FOX 4's Megan Cloherty is Working 4 You with the story of one Kansas City organ recipient.
"I didn't have any chest pain, wasn't clammy or short of breath," said Mike Sass, organ donor recipient. "I had no symptoms what-so-ever."
Mike Sass said he was in the fight of his life about 30 minutes later. "My left main artery had completely clotted off," Sass Said. "The left side of the heart was dead. So there was no pumping going on. So they did a cath to get the right artery open. It was accluded 98 percent so my chances of survival were slim."
No one knows how long Sass went on with only half his heart working overtime. But he stayed active by teaching scuba diving. "I should be dead," Sass said. "I mean literally I should not be here." Three weeks after he checked in, Sass left with the heart of a woman from Wisconsin, named Sue.
"We were a lot alike believe it or not," Sass said. "According to her mother, she liked to do adventurous things. I've always been an adventurous type of person." Sass has grown close to Sue's family who he says take comfort in knowing donating her organs is what Sue wanted.
More than 700-people are alive today because of organ donations in the Kansas City metro last year.
"I didn't have any chest pain, wasn't clammy or short of breath," said Mike Sass, organ donor recipient. "I had no symptoms what-so-ever."
Mike Sass said he was in the fight of his life about 30 minutes later. "My left main artery had completely clotted off," Sass Said. "The left side of the heart was dead. So there was no pumping going on. So they did a cath to get the right artery open. It was accluded 98 percent so my chances of survival were slim."
No one knows how long Sass went on with only half his heart working overtime. But he stayed active by teaching scuba diving. "I should be dead," Sass said. "I mean literally I should not be here." Three weeks after he checked in, Sass left with the heart of a woman from Wisconsin, named Sue.
"We were a lot alike believe it or not," Sass said. "According to her mother, she liked to do adventurous things. I've always been an adventurous type of person." Sass has grown close to Sue's family who he says take comfort in knowing donating her organs is what Sue wanted.
More than 700-people are alive today because of organ donations in the Kansas City metro last year.
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