Thank you so much for your comment. I hope your granddaughter is doing well. Best wishes to her and to your entire family.

Sincerely,
Dan

Dan

Thank you so much for a touching comment. Please accept my sincerest condolences and please convey them to Nicole’s parents. Nicole must have been a wonderful young lady from a great family. It’s a heartbreaking and tragic story, and yet, out of tragedy, there is hope and kindness and life, thanks to Nicole’s gifts, and that of her parents. Thank you for writing. I am going to pass your comment along to Bill. He is now back in college and doing well and is a spokesman for organ donation, so others can live just as he does.

Sincerely,

Dan

I just read your beautiful story about Bill Coon. God Bless him! Our family knows all to well about organ donor and it’s importance. Although, ours is the opposite of Bill’s life.

My niece Nicole was pronounced brain dead on April 10, 2008. She had been driving down the highway, heading to work when she was rear ended by a semi-truck. There were no signs of injury, no blood or broken bones. It was a closed head injury.

Nicole had the organ donor sticker on her drivers license. My sister and brother in law decided to honor Nicole’s wishes and kept her alive until all the surgeons, patients, and equipment were all set up. The surgeries began three days later and were completed within 24 hours. The family was given her body the next day. This was now five days after her accident.

Nicole donated her eyes, kidney’s, lungs, pancreas, liver, heart, and skin. She saved five lives; helped another to have sight; and helped a burn victim too. She was 20 years old.

Reading your blog regarding Bill Coon really helped me this evening. It was nice to know the results of being an organ donor.