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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Local mom shares story of organ donation

Palestine Herald-Press

PALESTINE — Brande Denson was studying to become a nurse because she wanted to help people. She never thought she would save the lives of seven individuals after she died.

A truck struck the vehicle in which Brande was riding on a rain slick highway in April 2009. Her brain suffered traumatized swelling to a point where the pressure was so great she began having strokes.

Soon the doctors came to her mother, Sherry Denson Sellers, a Palestine native, to talk about organ donation.

“I wasn’t ready to accept that possibility yet,” Sellers said at Wednesday’s Rotary meeting where she presented a program on organ donation. “I sat with her for 10 days and nights in ICU. When I touched her, Brande’s heart rate and blood pressure would increase so I knew she knew I was there.

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