Posted by Hal Dardick at 10:46 a.m.
Six weeks after receiving a kidney from his sister, Cook County Commissioner Robert Steele today encouraged others to donate organs so people on waiting lists get a second shot at life.
“I want you to know, don’t be afraid to be a donor,” said Steele, D-Chicago, 49, as he stood next to his sister, Joyce Mosely, who gave him one of her kidneys. He needed it because of a decades-long struggle with diabetes and high blood pressure.
Steele made the pitch before the County Board meeting at which commissioners approved a resolution saluting the Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network and declaring today Organ Donor Awareness Day in Cook County.
Jackie Lynch, the network’s community affairs director, said more than 5,000 people in Illinois await organ transplants and more than 500 die each year for lack of a donor.
-- The Chicago Tribune
“I want you to know, don’t be afraid to be a donor,” said Steele, D-Chicago, 49, as he stood next to his sister, Joyce Mosely, who gave him one of her kidneys. He needed it because of a decades-long struggle with diabetes and high blood pressure.
Steele made the pitch before the County Board meeting at which commissioners approved a resolution saluting the Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network and declaring today Organ Donor Awareness Day in Cook County.
Jackie Lynch, the network’s community affairs director, said more than 5,000 people in Illinois await organ transplants and more than 500 die each year for lack of a donor.
-- The Chicago Tribune
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