Gift of life in demand: Lifebanc says thousands in need of organ and tissue transplants

The News-Herald | Max Reinhart


In 1994, doctors told Jim Lunder he had probably five years to live.

Today, the longtime Mentor-on-the-Lake resident, now 66, survives thanks to a life-saving heart transplant he received in August, 2009.

"I've never felt this good," Lunder said. "Every day is like an extra day I get to live."

But Lunder remembers when his future seemed bleak. Diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, the condition continued to grow worse, peaking in 2008 when he suffered from palpitations.

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