Tori McCoy Gets her Match

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

https://www.wcia.com/sports/local-sports/tori-mccoy-receives-match-for-kidney-transplant/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_WCIA3sports

Great news! Hope she has a successful surgery

[Herman Cain]

Ditto

[Mr. Sand-Knit]

Wow!! How great?!!, this is life and death stuff and far more important than any game.  Quite possibly the best news i have ever read on this board.

[brewcity77]

This is great to hear.

[WarriorDad]

Wonderful news!

[Newsdreams]

Excellent news!

[barfolomew]

This was awesome news.

The Paired Kidney Exchange program has saved the lives of three people I know personally, and countless thousands of others like Tori.
What a tremendous concept, and something I point to whenever I fear there is no hope for human kindness.

[Marquette Fan]

Surgery is scheduled for August 15th and this story has a bit about her donor:

https://twitter.com/MikeCurkov/status/1149705624868966400

Best wishes to McCoy and the donor for the surgery.

[Cheeks]

Thrilled for her and her family.


In my opinion, if this was a men's player I would expect that we would have 100+ posts responding with congratulations.  What gives? 

[Nukem2]

Best wishes for Tori.

[Scoop Snoop]

Surgery is scheduled for August 15th and this story has a bit about her donor:

https://twitter.com/MikeCurkov/status/1149705624868966400

Best wishes to McCoy and the donor for the surgery.

Something must have gotten in my eyes when I watched this.

Very moving. Hope the surgery is a huge success.

[GooooMarquette]

Great story. Best wishes to Tori, and huge props to Justice Moore!

[muwarrior69]

Live organ donors (kidney and liver) are only about 5% of all organ donations. It has been almost 20 years ago that my 17 year old son died to injuries in an automobile accident. He gave the gift of life to 6 individuals and improved the quality of life to 7 others. I encourage everyone to consider checking that box when they renew their driver license and become an organ donor. In New Jersey we have the Sharing network and those people have the hardest job in the world as they approach families like mine and remind us that when bad things happens to good people; good people can still do a good thing.

[GooooMarquette]

Live organ donors (kidney and liver) are only about 5% of all organ donations. It has been almost 20 years ago that my 17 year old son died to injuries in an automobile accident. He gave the gift of life to 6 individuals and improved the quality of life to 7 others. I encourage everyone to consider checking that box when they renew their driver license and become an organ donor. In New Jersey we have the Sharing network and those people have the hardest job in the world as they approach families like mine and remind us that when bad things happens to good people; good people can still do a good thing.

+1000

Sorry about your tragic loss, but good on you for helping others.

In addition to checking the box, I would strongly encourage people to tell their family. I have seen cases where a person checked the box, but then family came in and didn't want their loved one's organs to be harvested. And usually the opposition was because the family member claimed not to know. The docs had the legal right and were on solid ethical ground, but struggled with upset family members during a time-sensitive tragedy.

[Cheeks]

Live organ donors (kidney and liver) are only about 5% of all organ donations. It has been almost 20 years ago that my 17 year old son died to injuries in an automobile accident. He gave the gift of life to 6 individuals and improved the quality of life to 7 others. I encourage everyone to consider checking that box when they renew their driver license and become an organ donor. In New Jersey we have the Sharing network and those people have the hardest job in the world as they approach families like mine and remind us that when bad things happens to good people; good people can still do a good thing.

I cannot imagine what your family went through.


We have been organ donors since the day I started driving.  Upon my father's death he donated as well, but nothing like your son.  God Bless.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

someone on here, sorry that I can't remember who, inspired me to sign up for the bone marrow donation network.  Super easy, they sent a kit, a mouth swab, back in the envelope and into the database.  another way to give life to someone.

There was a preschool teacher here in the People's Republic that gave a kidney to one of her students.  Amazing story:

https://www.uwhealth.org/news/preschool-teacher-donates-kidney-to-student/50368 

Trey Schwab went to work for the UW organ donation program after he left MU.

Best of luck to Tori and her done.

[Shooter McGavin]

+1000

Sorry about your tragic loss, but good on you for helping others.

In addition to checking the box, I would strongly encourage people to tell their family. I have seen cases where a person checked the box, but then family came in and didn't want their loved one's organs to be harvested. And usually the opposition was because the family member claimed not to know. The docs had the legal right and were on solid ethical ground, but struggled with upset family members during a time-sensitive tragedy.

I completely agree on letting your family know.  I have seen the same thing.   It very much adds a significant stressor to the family when they are already significantly stressed.  They believe they have zero control over their loved one who just died and believe rightly or wrongly their family member is being defiled. 

I have told my family my wishes to donate and that it would be an honor to save someone else's life or make their quality of life better.  Hopefully that will spare them some of the angst regarding the harvesting.

Good for Tori.  I wish her the best.

[MuMark]

Darn
https://twitter.com/CKStoney21/status/1157303075041939456?s=20

[Loose Cannon]

Pray or what ever you do to Help..

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Worst news of the offseason by far. Thoughts, hopes, prayers for Tori.

[Muhoops85]

Live organ donors (kidney and liver) are only about 5% of all organ donations. It has been almost 20 years ago that my 17 year old son died to injuries in an automobile accident. He gave the gift of life to 6 individuals and improved the quality of life to 7 others. I encourage everyone to consider checking that box when they renew their driver license and become an organ donor. In New Jersey we have the Sharing network and those people have the hardest job in the world as they approach families like mine and remind us that when bad things happens to good people; good people can still do a good thing.

Thank you for your post.  It's been only 6 months since the unexpected death of my husband of 36 years.  Nothing can replace him.  He did not sign his license.  However I know the donations I approved saved lives, gave sight, helped burn victims and more.  I knew that giving would be what he wanted even though he did sign up.  I will echo what muwarrior69 stated relative to the professionals who have to ask for the donations.  I was on the phone for nearly an hour as I was driving home from the hospital after just learning of his death.  My head was about to explode.  It must be hard for them as it was for me to hear the questions.
God bless your family and their gift to others.

[Marquette Fan]

I just saw a tweet from yesterday that the donor that was supposed to donate a kidney has fallen through .  I hope a new donor can be found soon.

Edited to add the links now that I have time to get on my laptop:

The tweet I saw:
https://twitter.com/TravelsbyJULIE/status/1156950178093572096

A recent tweet from Tori McCoy:
https://twitter.com/torimccoy23/status/1156297531904667653

[Mr. Sand-Knit]

Simply changed her mind??

[Marquette Fan]

Simply changed her mind??

I don't know details - just that it fell through.  I couldn't find an article about it but based on McCoy's latest tweet it appears to be true unfortunately. 

[WarriorDad]

Unfortunate, but a match is out there somewhere.