Two years ago, Rich Hayes of Princeton Junction had eight, maybe 12, weeks to live. He was a busy sales executive and married father of two diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder that was attacking his liver.
Medication no longer worked. At one point he was so sick his doctors put him in a drug-induced coma. His only chance was an organ transplant. He received the gift of a donated liver on April 20, 2010.
Mr. Hayes, now 58, is alive today because a donor gave him the gift of life. By coincidence, he celebrated the two-year anniversary of his life-saving transplant this year the same day NJ Sharing Network hosted the first-ever National Donate Life Blue and Green Day, a campaign to radically increase the number of people registered on donor registries by drawing attention to this life-saving decision on both a local and national stage. Mr. Hayes and the many others who support organ donation wore blue and green that day.
Mr. Hayes signed up to be an organ donor himself decades earlier, but he never thought he would be the person who would someday need an organ. Today he talks to schools and to people waiting on line at Motor Vehicle agencies. People obtaining or renewing their driver's license have the option to check “yes” to register as an organ donor.
Read more: http://thealternativepress.com/articles/mercer-county-resident-appreciates-second-chance
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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