Have you ever taken the time to really understand what is involved with organ donation? We all have heard of a compelling story that makes us stop and consider the conversation. Little Abbie who saved 5 lives when she lost…
Sadly, each day, 22 men, women, and children die waiting to receive a life-saving organ transplant. Fortunately, over 650,000 lives have been saved since 1988 with the help of donors—many of them not biologically related to the recipient.
On this brand new episode of Family Comes First™, “Saving Lives,” we meet with Cindy Somma, who decided to give the gift of life to a relative and ended up saving the life of another.
Join us on Monday, September 19th at 1:30 pm on Telecare (Cablevision channels 29 and 137, Time Warner channels 106 (Manhattan), 471 (Queens) or Verizon FiOS TV channel 296) as Cindy shares with us her journey when choosing to donate her kidney—and how she unexpectedly ended up saving the life of a stranger.