Organ donor shows students life-saving lesson

The Town Talk | Jessica Bliss


Photo: Stephen Schumacher visits with his sister Leslie Schumacher McKee as she rests at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after receiving his transplanted kidney. McKee suffers from a condition called amyloidosis, which causes protein to go wild in her blood and could lead to multiple organ failure. / Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Talking about organ donation can be difficult but inspiring
Stephen Schumacher sat by his sister’s bedside in the hospital, and she looked at him.

“I think I’m going home,” she said.

“And she didn’t mean back to Franklin,” Schumacher recalled.

Those were the darkest days of his sister’s illness — a rare disease called amyloidosis, which causes protein to go wild in the blood, potentially leading to multiple organ failure.

There were many nights when family members thought she might die.
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