Matt Thompson, the owner of Smitty's Oyster House in Vancouver, is raising money and awareness for organ donation after receiving a life-saving liver transplant. He plans to donate 25 cents per oyster sold after 6:00 p.m. throughout the month of April.
The man who owns a popular oyster bar in Vancouver is launching a fundraiser to help promote organ transplants . As Jay Durant tells us on This is BC, Matt Thompson has a very personal reason for making this his cause.
“ to donate 25 cents an oyster after 6:00 p.m. for the whole month,” Thompson, who owns Smitty’s Oyster House in Vancouver, told Global’sTwo years ago Thompson’s life was saved after receiving a liver transplant. Years of alcoholism had taken its toll leaving him with Stage-4 liver disease.“You progressively deteriorate to a point where you can’t walk, and you can’t use your hands. Even mental function goes away,” Thompson added. “You know you’re dying. You’re very aware of it,” he said.
“My stepfather has become increasingly sick from pulmonary fibrosis and he is now in need of a double lung transplant,” Thompson’s friend and business colleague Jayme Strickland said.Spring housing market looms over the Bank of Canada’s rate decision. Here’s why“It makes organ donation real for people and that’s when people can really start to think about the type of impact they want to have at the time of their passing and the kind of legacy they want to leave behind,” she said.
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