With the 2012 Rose Parade only six days away, participants from our region are gearing up to make the journey out to Pasadena, California to raise awareness for organ donation.
Barbara and Neil Hall
Barbara and Neil Hall, from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, will help decorate the Donate Life America Float, titled “…One More Day”. They are the parents of Douglas Hall, who received a life-saving liver transplant last year.
“Neil and I are so very grateful for his gift of life, and we want to do whatever we can to promote organ donation so that others can have the same opportunity to live their life,” said Barbara Hall. “Without his gift, Douglas would not be alive today.”
When their son was born in 1971, he was diagnosed with Hemophilia. Because of the necessary blood products he received for his treatments, Douglas contracted Hepatitis C. Though his body was able to fight off the virus without any treatment, his liver was damaged so severely, he required a liver transplant to survive.
Read more: http://www.donors1.org/blog/2011/12/27/parents-of-liver-recipient-raise-awareness-for-organ-donation/
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