‘I’m gonna take you with me’: organ transplant recipients, families of donors gather to celebrate and remember

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – As Seattle woman Bella Anderson, then seventeen years old, lay in a hospital bed with heart failure, she noticed an occasional visitor outside her window.

“We had watched an eagle build a nest and it would fly in and out of my hospital view,” Anderson remembered. “On the day of my surgery, we saw the eagle.”

Anderson’s surgery, a heart transplant, was a success, and the high school senior was able to walk the stage at graduation just two weeks later…

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