HOUSTON - You’ve already told Facebook what kind of relationship you’re in. And it knows who your friends are.
Now, you can add to your status that you are an organ donor. But is anybody clicking “Like” on this?
Actually, yes. At first, it had a “creep factor” to it: telling the world what to do with your organs if you die while on life support.
But then people started signing up with organ-donor registries – more than 6,000 just on Tuesday, the first day Facebook announced the new status choice.
And a Pasadena family can tell you what that might mean. On Thursday evening, the Bennett family – Paul, Katrinia and their 19-month old son Thomas – played outside with the water hose.
It has been exactly ten weeks since Katrinia, a nurse at Shriners Hospital for Children in Houston, got her new liver.
She had been diagnosed with liver cancer and was on the transplant waiting list for more than 6 months.
But before she went under the knife, Katrinia Bennett got a glimpse of the future.
“I got to see them bring the liver in,” recalled Bennett. “And that was just like an overwhelming feeling. There was my new life in a little bitty box, a turquoise cooler.”
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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