DENVER (CBS4) – It’s no secret that organ and tissue donation saves lives. Just one donor can help more than 100 people.
Saying “yes” is as easy as click on the mouse.
“My life is completely normal now,” Colin Shearn said.
Shearn, a husband and father of two, is active and healthy. It’s hard to believe he has cheated death twice.
“Getting an organ transplant has given me at least 13 years. I’m hoping for 50,” he said.
Shearn had a rare liver ailment. At 29 he had a liver transplant, then another weeks later when an infection caused the first to fail.
“They saved my life.”
Shearn went on to get a PhD in immunobiology — and he got a wake-up call.
“You learn that life is so fragile and while you’re here you better make a difference.”
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