It started off as a happy day – Peter and Yvonne Patnaude’s daughter, Payge, was celebrating her birthday and her older brother, Tyler, was preparing to graduate from Cosby High School. Then with one knock on the door, everything changed. A parent’s worst nightmare- Tyler was dead. The car he’d been riding in hit a…
We talk a lot about the donation of vital organs, but tissue donation also makes a huge difference in the lives of people of all ages. Nineteen-year-old Ebony Reynolds is one of them. A rising star in college basketball, she hits the court on a knee reconstructed from donor tissue. Ebony was a rising junior…
This year will mark the tenth since the passing of Cindy Harris’ son Paul, an organ donor whose gifts would go on to improve or even save the lives of 69 other people. It’s both easy and difficult for Cindy to think of Paul, who died at age 18 from head trauma caused when his…
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