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April 7th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Out of tragedy, a gift for others
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/04/out-tragedy-gift-others
By Kate Wiltrout
The Virginian-Pilot
© April 7, 2008
“…Last May 2, Keldrick Jackson was shot in the head inside his friend’s car as they drove home from a Norfolk sports bar. Police arrested a man they had argued with inside the bar and charged him with the killing.
By the time Jackson arrived at the hospital, her husband was on life support.
Jacqueline, a 25-year-old graduate student at Old Dominion University, didn’t think long about what to do. Both she and her husband’s driver’s licenses noted they were organ donors. She told doctors to salvage all the organs they could.
She spent two final days with her unconscious husband at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. While she waited, she saw multiple helicopters arrive - transplant teams coming to harvest life-giving organs, tissue and even some of Keldrick’s bones.”