CAMBRIDGE — Jason Young was walking the halls of Preston High School on Wednesday as a former student, but more importantly as an organ recipient.
Young and two other Preston alumni returned to the school during Organ Donation Week to show students they are living proof that organ donation saves lives.
“The message is that it saved my life,’’ said Young, a 34-year-old father to a one-year-old son. “There is the possibility of helping someone and saving their life.’’
“We want to put a face on organ donation and show that it works,’’ said Kelly Thorman-Kleinschmidt, a 34-year-old mother of two boys.
Candice Coghlan, 26, had a kidney transplant in 2009 with an organ donated by her mother, just a year after being diagnosed with the final stage of renal failure. She had been sick as a teenager but was told she was suffering from allergies.
“I feel fabulous. It’s like night and day,’’ said the University of Guelph student who works full time for the Kidney Foundation of Canada. She was student council president at Preston in 2001 and graduated the following year.
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