What does 20-year-old Sam Prince retrieve astir his childhood?
“I was stuck successful a bubble for the archetypal 8 years of my life,” Sam says successful a caller NFL360 video astir his ngo to rise much consciousness of organ donation. Born with a terrible bosom defect that required 2 surgeries earlier helium turned 1, Sam couldn’t spell to schoolhouse during that clip and couldn’t marque a batch of friends.
That changed erstwhile Sam received a bosom transplant astatine Columbia astatine property 8, and since past he’s been moving to summation the fig of radical who registry to donate organs.
Sam has raised thousands for the origin with a lemonade basal and by volunteering for New Jersey’s organ donation network, and helium ne'er turns down a accidental to archer his story.
And erstwhile his emotion for the New York Giants collided with his ngo to summation organ donation, Sam made the astir of the opportunity. Through the Make a Wish Foundation, Sam announced the New York Giant’s archetypal prime astatine the 2022 NFL draft, capturing the hearts of players and fans and utilizing the infinitesimal to beforehand his cause.
Earlier this year, Columbia pediatric cardiologists Warren Zuckerman, MD, and Marc Richmond, MD, connected Sam with 14-year-old Jayden Obregon, who underwent a transplant successful 2019. Over Zoom sessions—and a astonishment travel to a Giants signifier to conscionable their favourite players—the boys formed a enslaved implicit their unsocial experiences.
For Sam, mentoring Jayden is different mode to wage it forward. Reflecting connected the experience, Sam says: “I privation to beryllium determination for someone.”
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