Charlotte, NC - North Carolina is seeing a major boost in organ donors and it's all thanks to Facebook. Debbie Mann-Gibbs with LifeShare Of The Carolinas says, last week, daily donor registrations went up more than 3000 percent. This week she says, "we're seeing about 2 or 3 times more people signing up."
For Patrick Mitchell that's encouraging news. Right now, his mother Edith is recovering from a double lung transplant. Patrick says, “If someone hadn't donated their lungs, wouldn't been an organ donor, my baby girl wouldn't get to know her grandmother."
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