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Nicole Nidea: Lifelong organ donation advocate

I’m a life-long organ donation advocate because of stories I heard at a college SODA event.

I became a widow at age twenty-eight. My first husband, Matt, collapsed one evening from what we later discovered was a ruptured brain aneurysm.

“We have found joy in the decision that I know Abigail would’ve made herself.”

She was beautiful inside an out, smart, funny, sensitive, amazing with kids and animals, generous and always stood up for those who were bullied.

Dr. Margo Gill honors her son Logan and stresses the importance of blood donation during this critical time.

Not a day goes by that I do not think about my organ donors and their families.