New England Donor Services: Heart transplant recipient pays back by pressing hard for organ donations
Back in 2015, George Boakye-Yiadom was a 25-year-old professional basketball player in Europe when he was stricken in sudden fashion by a previously unknown heart condition that left him at death’s door.
Now 36, he’s living a normal life again in Mattapan, thanks to an anonymous organ donor, whose transplanted heart is now ticking inside Boakye-Yiadom’s 6-foot-7 frame.
“I would say you’re not just saving a life, you’re saving a generation,” he told The Reporter in an interview this month. “Because of that family giving me their son’s or daughter’s heart, I’m able to have children and provide for them. I had three boys after my transplant. I’m so grateful to that family.”
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