A longtime Bay Area advocate for organ donations shared his personal story of helping a stranger earlier this year in an effort to inspire more people to donate life.
A longtime advocate for organ donations shared his personal story of helping a stranger earlier this year in an effort to inspire more people to donate life. The recipient, a woman who lives on the other side of the country, received a kidney transplant from Luis Mayen, who works as the vice president of external affairs at Donor Network West. He hopes National Living Donor Day on April 3 raised awareness about the impact you can have on someone you know and love or someone you may never meet.
He understood the gift people could give by donating organs after they pass on and as a living donor. In January, he became an indirect donor by giving his kidney to a 42-year-old woman in New York that he did not know then and still has learned little more about since the transplant. 'I thought about her every day before I went to sleep, and I thought about her every day when I woke up,' Mayen said about the recipient of his kidney.
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