Organ donations from Sgt. Craig Johnson to save countless lives

Organ donations from Sgt. Craig Johnson to save countless lives

SERGEANT JOHNSON CHOSE TODONATE HIS ORGANS-SO OTHERSMAY LIVE.ONLY ON 2, ONE ORGAN DONORRECIPIENT .... TELLS OURREPORTER TONY RUSSELL WHATKIND OF IMPACT SERGEANTJOHNSON WILL HAVE.... ONTHOSE EAGERLY WAITING FOR ATRANSPLANT.JERAD LINDSEY, TULSAFRATERNAL ORDER OFPOLICE,".Craig was one ofthose people that selflesslyserved," AS MEMORIALS GROWFOR FALLEN TULSA POLICESERGEANT CRAIG JOHNSON.

HISIMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY WILLLIVE ON FOREVER.JERAD LINDSEY, TULSAFRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE,"Ithink it's only fitting thathis last act was saving 4additional lives for organdonation," ONE OF SERGEANTJOHNSON'S LAST ACTS OFSERVICE SO MANY IN THE ORGANDONATION COMMUNITY AREGRATEFUL FOR.Karen Hoyt/Organ Transplantrecipient,".Not a day goesby that I don't celebratethat kid.

And he's growingup with me in a veryspiritual sense, I feel veryclose to him, it's a it's anindescribable relationship,"KAREN HOYT, A FORMER HIGH-SCHOOL TEACHER AND CANCERSURVIVOR, RECEIVED A LIVERTRANSPLANT FROM A TEENAGERWHO LOST HIS LIFE in 2015.Karen Hoyt/Organ Transplantrecipient,"..as an organrecipient.

Yes, we go on welive our lives, and welive it to the fullest, butmuch much more than that.Our lives forever becomeentwined with our donor,"SPEAKING OF LIVING LIFE TOTHE FULLEST... KAREN WENT ONTO COMPETE IN THE DONORGAMES--EVEN WINNING A GOLDMEDAL!

THE NEED FOR PEOPLETO SIGN UP AND BECOME ANORGAN DONOR IS NATIONWIDE.We're acutely in need oforgans in this country andin Oklahoma, the waitinglist currently in Oklahomaisabout 600 a month thatvaries from day to day butroughly 600 patients on thewaiting list nationally thatnumber is in excess of120,000, and every day about22 people nationwide willdie on the waiting listwithout getting an organthat they need.

Soabsolutely, we needeverybody to make thedecision to be a donor andtoregister to be a donor, andto communicate it to them.AMAZINGLY, 64% OF OKLAHOMANS18 ANDOLDER HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UPTO BE ORGAN DONORS.IN TULSA, TONY RUSSELL, 2WORKS FOR YOU.IF YOU WANT TO BE AN ORGANDONOR... YOU CAN SIGN UPWHEN YOU GET YOURDRIVER'S LICENSE ... OR GOONLINE.

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