EDITORIAL THE GIFT OF LIFE ORGAN-DONATING HAIRDRESSER INSPIRES WITH HER GENEROSITY.THE story of Michelle Garcia's generosity and compassion is truly inspirational in·spi·ra·tion·al adj. 1. Of or relating to inspiration. 2. Providing or intended to convey inspiration. 3. Resulting from inspiration. . Garcia, the subject of Dennis McCarthy's column last Sunday, is the Newhall hairdresser who donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. her kidney to a man she barely even knew, a customer's husband. Never mind the risks involved in surgery, or the unpaid leave she would have to take from her job, or any pain that might come with her recovery. Garcia saw a chance to do good, to save the life of Tony Ruffino, a husband and father of two young children. Without Garcia's kidney, Ruffino might have spent years on dialysis dialysis (dīăl`ĭsĭs), in chemistry, transfer of solute (dissolved solids) across a semipermeable membrane. Strictly speaking, dialysis refers only to the transfer of the solute; transfer of the solvent is called osmosis. hoping for a transplant transplant or graft Partial or complete organ or other body part removed from one site and attached at another. It may come from the same or a different person or an animal. One from the same person—most often a skin graft—is not rejected. that may never have arrived. The odds of finding a match for Ruffino's kidney were one in 10,000. Fortunately, Ruffino's wife had a one-of-a-kind human being for a hairdresser, a hero willing to risk her life to save someone else's. Garcia's compassion and goodness set a high standard for us all. |
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