“Living donors are very, very important; there are not enough organs to go around,” says Dr. Scantlebury, the first Black woman doctor in the U.S. to perform transplant surgery.
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Robinson spoke to his wife, Natalie, about it on the ride home to Teaneck, New Jersey, and she, without hesitation, supported the idea. They met with each their three children and discussed the scenario; all gave Dad the thumbs up to aid his friend. Robinson, 57, said he looks at it differently. “I think it was a spiritual thing,” he said. “I always had love for the brother. And I could see something was wrong. I could see it in his eyes. And he didn’t have the weight. So, it was a culmination of things. I had rejoined the church two years before the pandemic and found God, who led me through my spiritual battle. And I lost my father to the pandemic, which was tough.
Scantlebury said the Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program was working with community groups across the country to introduce more Black people to education around organ donation, “the need for preventive care, to understand the benefits of living donation because the list continues to grow, but not at the same rate at which organ donation occurs.”
Finally, the stents were removed and Koonce felt better, but he knew he had to find a donor, as the effects of the disease would augment. He could have quit coaching, but he signed up for one more year because he said he enjoys working with the girls under his tutelage and hopes they can learn something from his leadership, even as he now coaches mostly while sitting.
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