Sierra Donor Services (SDS) serves nearly three million people across Northern California and Northern Nevada. They are a team of professionals dedicated to saving and improving lives by connecting organ and tissue donations to the patients who need them. Family, did you know that one organ donor can save as many as eight lives. One tissue donor can improve the lives of 75 or more people.

Dwayne Wilson is a devoted and energetic Donate Life Ambassador who had to leave his career as an NBA equipment manager when his chronic heart condition led to the need for a transplant. Luckily Wilson received a heart transplant in 2021 and has never felt better.

Michael Coleman is Sierra Donor Services’ (SDS) Director of External Affairs, has a passion for sharply increasing the number of registered organ and tissue donors and ultimately eliminating the organ transplant wait list.

Tune in to hear my conversation with Dwayne as he shares his inspirational story from living with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a disease in which the heart muscle becomes thickened, making it harder for the heart to pump blood, to transplantation. Michael joins the conversation to inform the Full Circle Family on all the good work Sierra Donor Services is doing.

To learn more about Sierra Donor Services, visit their website or follow them on social media:

https://sierradonor.org/

@sierradonorservices

https://www.facebook.com/SierraDonorServices

Learn more about organ and tissue donation, or sign up for the registry

https://donatelife.net/

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