Everything happened so fast, in a blur. A liver was waiting for him, the liver that would save his life.
As Kirby Cochran and his wife, Lori, drove to the hospital, the tears wouldn’t stop flowing. But these were not tears of joy. Not once on that car ride did they feel joy. Someone had to die for Cochran to live.
They didn’t know it then, but that someone was Tracy Driscoll, a 41-year-old mother of three.
The night before Cochran had received that phone call, Driscoll had shared a dinner with her family. She had laughed and talked about her dreams of becoming a nurse. She headed home with a full heart and a nagging headache. Hours later, she was dead, of a brain aneurysm and heart attack.
Her life was over. Until it wasn’t. Because Driscoll was an organ donor, she was about to give new life all over again.
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Inside University Hospital at IU Health Tuesday morning, Cochran cried. He was standing there nearly four years after his transplant, still crying for Driscoll – that she had to die for him to live. Continue reading
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