New Year’s Day is an occasion to reflect back to what we have accomplished in the past year and think about the mistakes we’ve made and lessons learned. New Year’s is also about looking ahead. Making resolutions. Establishing goals. Hoping, dreaming and planning.
For some Americans, though, their New Year's hope is that the phone will ring soon. They are the 120,000 people who are waiting for an organ transplant – and 3,600 of them live in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota.
A couple of years ago, a very ill two-year-old boy and a young lady who wasn’t expected to live to see her 30th birthday received that phone call. The little boy, Keegan, was in need of a liver and Meleah, the young woman, was struggling with cystic fibrosis and needed a pair of lungs.
Andrea, a sixteen-year-old from a small South Dakota town, was on her way home when she hit loose gravel and her car rolled. This terrible accident tragically took Andrea’s life. She was young and was taken from her family and friends much, much too soon.
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"You have the power to SAVE lives."
To register as a donor in California:
www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org | www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org
Outside California:
www.organdonor.gov | www.donatelife.
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