Are they crazy? 'We get asked that all the time, variations on: ‘Why would you do this?’” Ms. Badenoch says. “But there’s an emotional joy to saving a life that can’t be described in words.”
Heather Badenoch of Ottawa saw a newspaper story in 2016 about a young girl who needed a liver and made her decision immediately.“It’s an informal group, but there’s a big barrier to entry,” Heather Badenoch says with a laugh.
According to a study published in the Journal of Hepatology, they all have similar drive: “Saving a life, helping others, generativity, reciprocity for past generosity were motivators.” In May, 2018, there was another match and Ms. Badenoch donated 22 per cent of the left lobe of her liver. “I have no idea who the recipient was – other than it was a child – and that’s fine,” she says.
More than 500 people offered to donate a part of their liver to Mr. Melnyk and 20 of them actually continued with the process to become living donors. But, after her surgery, Ms. Bryan suffered a bowel obstruction, which required a second surgery. It was three months before she could return to work.
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