Des Moines drummer Lee “LeeMan” Furgerson got a new shot at life this month. The 51-year-old’s kidneys had failed, his blood pressure had shot up and the diabetes that ultimately took his father’s life was doing a job on him. His only long-term hope, doctors said, was a kidney transplant. But it could be months or years before a donor came through.
Just one short month later, one did — a bittersweet reprieve provided by a stranger’s wish to have his own death help someone else live. The day after a car crash claimed the life of the 28-year-old organ donor from Missouri on Nov. 16, his kidney was working inside Furgerson’s body.
Some would say it was the work of God. Others would call it random luck that the kidney recipient on Iowa’s registry that day had the same blood type. Then there’s a third way of looking at it that is rational but refutes the notion of pure randomness: Do good and good will come back to you. After all, the more organ donors there are, the greater the likelihood one will be available when someone you love needs one.
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