Oxnard residents encouraged to enroll in donor program
Ventura County Star | Hannah Guzik
PHOTO BY RICHARD QUINN, VENTURA COUNTY STAR. Richard Quinn/Special to the Star Hooshang Torabi talks about the experiences his wife, Karen, had with a kidney transplant and his own decision to donate a kidney to another man. Torabi, who works at the California Department of Motor Vehicles' Simi Valley office, was speaking to employees at the DMV's Oxnard office.
Moments after learning her 15-year-old daughter had died from an asthma attack in the Oxnard High School pool, a hospital official asked Lydia Olague-Rojas if she wanted to donate the girl's organs.
Grief-stricken, but wanting to help someone else, she said, "Yes."
Now, six years later, the Oxnard mother is encouraging other people to register as organ and tissue donors because she's seen how the process can not only save lives but also help families heal from the death of a loved one.
"In a way, my daughter's still here, because she's living on in others, and that has helped so much with the grieving process," Olague-Rojas said Wednesday. "This was a way to make something good come out of this tragedy."
Olague-Rojas and representatives from Donor Life California, a nonprofit that manages the state's organ and tissue donor registry, visited the Department of Motor Vehicles on Saviers Road in Oxnard on Wednesday to answer questions about the program and honor the office's efforts to sign up donors.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
PHOTO BY RICHARD QUINN, VENTURA COUNTY STAR. Richard Quinn/Special to the Star Hooshang Torabi talks about the experiences his wife, Karen, had with a kidney transplant and his own decision to donate a kidney to another man. Torabi, who works at the California Department of Motor Vehicles' Simi Valley office, was speaking to employees at the DMV's Oxnard office.
Moments after learning her 15-year-old daughter had died from an asthma attack in the Oxnard High School pool, a hospital official asked Lydia Olague-Rojas if she wanted to donate the girl's organs.
Grief-stricken, but wanting to help someone else, she said, "Yes."
Now, six years later, the Oxnard mother is encouraging other people to register as organ and tissue donors because she's seen how the process can not only save lives but also help families heal from the death of a loved one.
"In a way, my daughter's still here, because she's living on in others, and that has helped so much with the grieving process," Olague-Rojas said Wednesday. "This was a way to make something good come out of this tragedy."
Olague-Rojas and representatives from Donor Life California, a nonprofit that manages the state's organ and tissue donor registry, visited the Department of Motor Vehicles on Saviers Road in Oxnard on Wednesday to answer questions about the program and honor the office's efforts to sign up donors.
Read more
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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