Contact Story: Me and My Donor
I first contacted my donor family, anonymously through the hospital as you had to in those days, at five months post-transplant. My feeling then, and 29 years later still is, that as they had made the ultimate gift to an unknown person in a time of enormous grief, the least I could do was to both thank them and tell them a little about myself. I told them I had three young sons, and their gift was more about the boys having a father than it was about me. Not long later my don