His name was Blake. Just your all-round mid-forties fabulous guy. Great dad to two teenagers. Married to the same wonderful woman for over 20 years. Loved hockey. Cheered for the Leafs through the few good years and the many not so good ones. Took the kids whitewater rafting and up to the grandparents’ cottage. Worked out. Stayed healthy. And then he got sick. Something he’d never heard of attacked his liver and it kept getting worse. There was no cure. The only hope was for an organ donation. For a year they waited. And hoped. And prayed.

Then came the phone call. Another healthy young man had died and
the family was willing to donate his liver. Joy and gratitude overflowed. He went immediately to the hospital, had the surgery and came home with the rest of his life now to live. But a couple of days later he was sick again. Back to the hospital. Something had gone very wrong. A deadly infection had invaded him. A day ater Blake died. With your help the Organ Donation and Transplant Association of Canada will do everything we can to encourage organ donation and to provide funding towards medical research needed to make more and more transplants in all areas successful.

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