Colleen Kohse knows all about organ transplants, having donated her own heart when she received a double lung and heart transplant 23 years ago. Later, she also got a kidney. Understandably, the 53-year-old Vancouver woman — the longest-living person with cystic fibrosis to receive a double-lung transplant — is passionate about the importance of organ donors.
Photograph by: Ian Smith , Vancouver Sun
Nearly 450 British Columbians await a life-saving transplant; last year, 277 patients benefited from 70 deceased organ donors
Colleen Kohse knows all about organ transplants, having donated her own heart when she received a double lung and heart transplant 23 years ago. Later, she also got a kidney.
Understandably, the 53-year-old Vancouver woman — the longest-living person with cystic fibrosis to receive a double-lung transplant — is passionate about the importance of organ donors.
Speaking during National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week, which ends Saturday, Kohse noted that statistically, an individual is more likely to need an organ one day than to be a donor, so it is to people’s benefit to register.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Double+lung+heart+recipient+encourages+organ+donations/6538607/story.html#ixzz1taDAUuhS
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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