SLAIN COP’S ORGAN DONATION BRINGS MEETING
UT San Diego | Pauline Repard
Photo: Shanise Hamilton received a kidney from Officer Jeremy Henwood (pictured right) after he was slain on duty in 2011. Earnie Grafton • u-t
Two who received kidneys from SDPD officer, his family get together
It was the meeting of a lifetime.
Two women who received kidney transplants came face-to-face Friday with the family of the man who donated the organs, slain San Diego police Officer Jeremy Henwood.
“It was a very proud moment,†said Dr. Beverly Henwood, the officer’s mother.
She paused, choked back tears and added, “I never realized they had been ill so long and how it affected their families. I wanted to meet them to get the feeling, I guess, of Jeremy giving, of him still being alive.â€
Henwood traveled from San Antonio and her daughter, Emily, from Ottawa, Canada, to meet recipients Shanise Hamilton and Kimberly Redman at the Mission Valley offices of Lifesharing, a nonprofit organ and tissue recovery organization.
Both women, married and mothers, had waited about eight years for a kidney transplant, undergoing dialysis three times a week. They both had suffered disappointment when potential organ donations fell through.
Then on Aug. 6, 2011, a 23-year-old suicidal gunman drove up next to Officer Henwood’s patrol car in City Heights and fired a shotgun at him. The round hit the 36-year-old former Marine in the head, and he was placed on life support at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Mission Hills.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
Photo: Shanise Hamilton received a kidney from Officer Jeremy Henwood (pictured right) after he was slain on duty in 2011. Earnie Grafton • u-t
Two who received kidneys from SDPD officer, his family get together
It was the meeting of a lifetime.
Two women who received kidney transplants came face-to-face Friday with the family of the man who donated the organs, slain San Diego police Officer Jeremy Henwood.
“It was a very proud moment,†said Dr. Beverly Henwood, the officer’s mother.
She paused, choked back tears and added, “I never realized they had been ill so long and how it affected their families. I wanted to meet them to get the feeling, I guess, of Jeremy giving, of him still being alive.â€
Henwood traveled from San Antonio and her daughter, Emily, from Ottawa, Canada, to meet recipients Shanise Hamilton and Kimberly Redman at the Mission Valley offices of Lifesharing, a nonprofit organ and tissue recovery organization.
Both women, married and mothers, had waited about eight years for a kidney transplant, undergoing dialysis three times a week. They both had suffered disappointment when potential organ donations fell through.
Then on Aug. 6, 2011, a 23-year-old suicidal gunman drove up next to Officer Henwood’s patrol car in City Heights and fired a shotgun at him. The round hit the 36-year-old former Marine in the head, and he was placed on life support at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Mission Hills.
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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