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Cornea Recipient Shares Bond with Donor and Family
Nothing prepares a mother to lose her son. In 2012, when her son, Dustin, passed away unexpectedly, Patty Abare’s life was upended. Patty always thought of her son, Dustin, as a “people person.” Dustin had a big heart and an adventurous spirit. He worked off-shore...
Loving Mom Who Never Met A Stranger Restores Sight Through Cornea Donation
Twylia Clanton enjoyed drinking her morning coffee, playing cards, and reading books. And she never met a stranger. Her daughter, Courtney, says she was “one of a kind.” “My mama loved to talk,” says Courtney. “She was loved by everyone who knew her. My sister and I...
The Best Part of the Job – LaPrintence’s Motivation
The main reason that I do this job is that it gives me the ability to be a part of an organization that positively impacts the lives of families in countries all over the world. Eyesight is often taken for granted when it functions properly, but once it begins to wane...
Helping to Do The Final Great Deed of Her Mother – Sara’s Story
“My mother passed away when I was a child. She could only donate her eyes because of the cancer. I started doing this job out of the curiosity that grew out of that experience. At the time I didn’t understand what it meant to donate. Her cancer began when she was only...
June Joins the #CommunityofCompassion
“There were two tiny kittens left in a landfill. They were only about 2 weeks old, and they were covered in fleas and brake fluid. I’m working from home during Covid, so I was able to take them in and bottle feed them. I named them Tiger and Rocky. Once they were...
Cornea Donation Brings Comfort to Military Widow
Bob Randolph had a magnetic personality and an adventurous spirit. “There wasn’t anything that wasn’t fun with Bob,” says his wife, Caroline. “Every day was an adventure.” Bob and Caroline met on a blind date in California, and they were married in Las Vegas just a...
Delta Cargo Agent ReceivesLife Changing Corneal Transplant
Advancing Sight Network ships corneal tissue to 49 states and 56 countries so people can receive sight-saving corneal transplants. Delta cargo agent Lorenzo Dent makes sure the eye tissue makes it to the right place. He knows exactly how important it is to the person...
Veteran’s Eyes Opened to The Gift of Eye Donation
During my military career, I had a number of duties including preparing soldiers for deployments. As platoon sergeant and medical specialist, I performed medical and drug screenings.A fellow soldier worked at Advancing Sight, which was then called the Alabama Eye...
Alabama Nonprofit Partners with Huntsville Genetics Company to Cure Blinding Diseases
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — August 2020 — Two Alabama-based organizations are partnering to find cures for common diseases that cause blindness for millions of people worldwide. In an effort to help medical researchers develop new treatments and cures for blinding eye...
Organ Donation Makes Lasting Impact on Young Surgeon
An experience with organ donation during his first year of general surgery rotation made a lasting impression on Dr. Mamoun Pacha. It was 1976, and Dr. Pacha received a phone call from Dr. Johanssen, chief of the Renal Transplant Department at the University of...
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