US Air Force veteran saved two lives as a double organ donor

The veteran in the US Air Force Lindsey Guterres served our country for six years, and after leaving the army, it became a double donor to the members.

She donated one of her kidneys to save the lives of the old military warriors and donated 40 % of her liver, giving another person the opportunity to survive and prosper.

Gutierrez was shown as one of the models in 2026 Pinns for veterinarians Calendar, a non -profit organization that collects money to improve health care for old warriors and donate money to VA hospitals for medical equipment and expand the program.

She served in the Air Force until 2016. In 2014, she was in a vehicle accident that she left with an unbalanced brain injury during one of its publications.

According to the US Old Warriors Affairs, a Tbi It is “a head injury that affects the way the brain works. TBI can range from light to severe.

Guterres said that she went a few years without obtaining a diagnosis in favor of TBI and she was not even recently found support in the Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs and a neurologist who listened to her fears. With her diagnosis, she managed to “move forward” in her new chapter as a civilian.

In 2021, Guterres said she was in contact with a friend who talked about someone who needs liver.

Knowing that I was positive, I realized that I could donate my blood to anyone, so why not donate a device?

Later, Guterres found herself called for donation while working one day when the supervisor of a copy of Military Times handed her over and watched an advertisement to communicate with old warriors (pigeon).

“The supervisor handed me a copy of The Military Times, and at this stage, we never received this magazine at all, and everything surprisingly is a kind of clicking, because I see an addition to the donor donor from the old warriors, (Dove), and I realized that it is not aimed at profit to link warriors and actual duty to donors, and I think I can do this, this is something that I can Do it. ”

The donors’ process was described as “difficult”, but it will do so “over and over again” if she is able to do so.

“The veteran military said that its recipients in the kidneys, called Regey, are wonderful, I am very proud to say, and a pleasant fact, how his wife could not donate him, but she was able to donate to the man I was in contact with him and was a match for him.”

Two years later, Guterres donated part of her unidentified liver on April 30 last year.

This week she received a message from her recipient who have participated in good condition since surgery. Pin-UP for Vets hopes to communicate with them in the near future.

“I wanted to give them this space to be able to communicate with me when that time was ready and done. I am very excited to be able to participate to the extent that I got my first message from the recipient and I hope as soon as you call it, I wrote again, I hope we can make an appointment to meet in the end.”

Guterres shared a message of hope for her veterans, who may feel unstable about their future.

She said: “Give yourself this blessing and know that your path should not seem to be another person.” “Give yourself time and space, and it is okay to be in the place where you are. Do not have to rush anything and enjoy every day because what God puts on my heart will be different for another person, but you always remember that you have people around you and care about you and want to support you.”