| Sara and Jack Field, wearing green shirts, attended the Organ Donation Isn’t Scary 5K and Fun Run in Portland on Oct. 29. Jack Field was the recipient of a lung from Nick Townsend, son of Tanya and Ryan Read (orange shirts). Nick Townsend was a registered organ donor and died in May 2015.(Photo: Matthew Diggs/or the News Examiner) Organ Donation Isn't Scary 5K
Before his death in May 2015, Portland teen Nick Townsend made a decision he knew would help save lives.
Townsend had just finished volunteering at a Special Olympics event in Gallatin when he was involved in a car crash that claimed his life. He was a registered organ donor and on Saturday, Oct. 29, one of the seven people whose lives Townsend helped saved came to Portland to say thank you.
Every breath Jack Field took during the Organ Donation Isn’t Scary 5K and Fun Run was a personal tribute to Townsend's life-saving donation. Field, who lives in Evansville, Indiana, was diagnosed with Pulmonary Fibrosis in 2012 and given approximately five more years to live and needed a lung transplant.
After Townsend’s tragic accident, Field received a call that changed his life forever: the lung he desperately needed was now available. Continue reading
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