Hundreds Pay Tribute To Individuals Whose Final Act Of Kindness Saved The Lives Of Others
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Photo: Jackie Lue Raia of Mahwah looks at some of the new hand-made patches that were added to NJ Sharing Network’s “Quilts of Love†that was on display at a memorial ceremony in Woodbridge to honor organ and tissue donors. Jackie’s mother, Ena Lue, was able to donate her liver and both kidneys after she was killed in a car accident in 2010. Jackie later pinned a patch she made to honor her mother’s memory to the quilt. (Photo courtesy of NJ Sharing Network)
WOODBRIDGE â€" Ezequiel Garcia of Newark will never forget that fateful phone call on Sept. 11, 2011. He was vacationing in the beautiful mountains of Puerto Rico, his native homeland. His wife, Iris, was the caller. The words out of her mouth were not to be believed. Their middle child, Reinaldo, had been involved in a motorcycle accident and was taken to Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, where he later died from injuries suffered.
“I felt like my world ended. It was something so big it was incomprehensible. It was the end of my world right then,†recalled Garcia, a retired Newark public school teacher.
Hundreds of miles away, Ezequiel could only think about getting home to his wife and two other sons. At the same time, the Garcia family, still at the hospital grieving, was approached by NJ Sharing Network to see if they would be willing to donate Reinaldo’s organs and tissue.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
Photo: Jackie Lue Raia of Mahwah looks at some of the new hand-made patches that were added to NJ Sharing Network’s “Quilts of Love†that was on display at a memorial ceremony in Woodbridge to honor organ and tissue donors. Jackie’s mother, Ena Lue, was able to donate her liver and both kidneys after she was killed in a car accident in 2010. Jackie later pinned a patch she made to honor her mother’s memory to the quilt. (Photo courtesy of NJ Sharing Network)
WOODBRIDGE â€" Ezequiel Garcia of Newark will never forget that fateful phone call on Sept. 11, 2011. He was vacationing in the beautiful mountains of Puerto Rico, his native homeland. His wife, Iris, was the caller. The words out of her mouth were not to be believed. Their middle child, Reinaldo, had been involved in a motorcycle accident and was taken to Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, where he later died from injuries suffered.
“I felt like my world ended. It was something so big it was incomprehensible. It was the end of my world right then,†recalled Garcia, a retired Newark public school teacher.
Hundreds of miles away, Ezequiel could only think about getting home to his wife and two other sons. At the same time, the Garcia family, still at the hospital grieving, was approached by NJ Sharing Network to see if they would be willing to donate Reinaldo’s organs and tissue.
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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