One life saves seven

Columbia Star | Julia Rogers Hook

When 19- year- old Jesse Miller Gamble finished his shift at Terra Restaurant one summer night three years ago, he hopped on his bike and started for his home on Senate Street as he had done many nights before.

But that night was different. That night, while biking over the Blossom Street Bridge, Jesse was struck by a drunk driver and sustained immense injuries. He was taken to the Palmetto Richland Hospital and diagnosed as brain-dead. His body had endured too much to carry on, and Jesse’s brain could no longer carry out its function. Without being on a ventilator, Jesse would die.

In those most heartbreaking moments of her life, Jesse’s mother, Lynn Finley, remembered that he had talked about being an organ donor.

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