781000login-checkHe wanted to donate a kidney to help Jacksonville man. Instead, it saved his own life. |
Though he couldn’t donate his own kidney, Pat O’Shaughnessy of Illinois is determined to still help a young Jacksonville man get the transplant he needs.
By Matt Soergel
Pat O’Shaughnessy calls it his mission — his determination to donate one of his 64-year-old kidneys to a 31-year-old man with so much to look forward to.
He failed in that mission, he believes, and his voice breaks as he admits that.
But in that failure, he probably saved his own life. So he’ll be around to continue the mission, he says, and he vows to stick with it until it succeeds. Read the article in the Jacksonville Florida Times-Union.
781000login-checkHe wanted to donate a kidney to help Jacksonville man. Instead, it saved his own life. |