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Giving the Gift of Self
A tradition of medical donation by seminarians helps strangers, loved ones
by James Koelsch, student in the Licentiate in Sacred Theology at Sacred Heart
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Tim Wezner, left, donated his stem cells to a dying man, while Jason Kern was a kidney donor to his mother. |
What would you do if someone were to ask you for a piece of your body? Most of us would probably think twice, but some of our seminarians didn't hesitate to do it.
Take Tim Wezner, a second-year college seminarian from SS. Cyril & Methodius Parish in Sterling Heights. When the National Marrow Donor Program called him in April, he agreed to help a stranger whom he would never meet.
"Because of confidentiality laws, all they could tell me about him was that he was a 41-year-old man who had leukemia," says Wezner. "And he didn't know anything about me, except my age more...
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