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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Gift of Life: Organ Donation is two decades to Murrah

The Kaufman Herald | Lloyd Cook

Randell Murrah knows about the importance of donating organs so that others may survive.

He has a donated heart from a young donor … a donated heart that saved his life.

It saved his life more than two decades ago and he’s still living his life today.

“His heart was just failing,” Randell’s wife Carolyn said.

“So, in August 1990 we went to see the transplant people at St. Paul’s hospital. They were the only ones doing transplants then.”

Randell had suffered a heart attack in the late ‘80s. He drove himself to Texas Presbyterian Hospital Kaufman and was transported to Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas by helicopter, where he had six bypasses.

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