December: Jesiah Brock. Featured in 2023 Calendar.

Tissue and Cornea Recipients

December: Jesiah Brock. Featured in 2023 Calendar.

When I was 18 months old, I was involved in a horrible accident that left me burned over a great area of my body. I ...
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Tissue and Cornea Recipients

July: Lilly Karschner. Featured in 2023 Calendar.

When I was 6 years old, I received a cornea transplant from a family who made the noble decision for their child to be an ...
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Tissue and Cornea Recipients

December: Christienne King and AJ Wilson, Family of Adrienne King, Organ and Cornea Donor (1959-1992), Featured in 2004 Calendar.

In 1992, the oldest of my four sisters suffered a non-survivable brain injury in a fall. Despite having Cerebral Palsy and Epilepsy, Adrienne knew no ...
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September: Connie Lawson, Cornea Recipient. 8 years post-transplant. Featured in 2016 Calendar.

In 2013, I contracted a severe fungal infection in my eye. The pain was so intense that I couldn’t do anything and quickly began to ...
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July: Tayler Lee Towles, Daughter of Connie Towles, Cornea Donor (1967-2012). Featured in 2017 Calendar.

At the age of nine years old I lost my mother to breast cancer. Losing her especially at such a young age has greatly impacted ...
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June: Sgt. Keith Belcher, Tissue Recipient. 8-years post-transplant. Featured in 2014 Calendar.

I am a police sergeant with the City of Milford. I received my Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tissue graft in 2014. I was injured while ...
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Dalton Burger – Cornea Recipient

My incident happened 4 years ago when I was 19 and having fun. I attended a party with a few other friends having a good ...
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Amaya Deye – Tissue Recipient

In the beginning, I felt like my knee would dislocate or be out of place for hours or even days before it felt semi normal ...
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Tysha Wilder – Passed away while waiting

I was first diagnosed with Lupus when I was about 25 years old. My journey had been fairly uneventful until I got pregnant and gave ...
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Jaylynn Parker – Cornea Recipient

“A family had to agree to cornea donation in order for my daughter to be on the receiving end, and if it wasn’t for that ...
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