Intensive care units and emergency departments across the province are now working together to coordinate a provincewide response for organ donation and transplantation opportunities.
One of the most generous things a person can do is give another person the chance at life. The Mail brought readers the story of a young man who anonymously donated his kidney in the December 30, 2020 edition.
Since that time another anonymous donor from Drumheller came forward to tell her story, and their stories are strikingly similar.
Debbie Catonio, 62, said her story was also inspired by the story of James Vogel, a man who advertised locally for a kidney and who was able to receive a kidney over a year ago.
“I saw the billboard on top of the hill and thought about it,” said Catonio. “It was just a thought because I felt I was too old to do anything like this. Later I saw a vehicle with the same advertising on it asking for a donation, and I just kept on seeing it.”