He wasn’t able to be because he had developed cancer,” Kim said. Unfortunately, he passed away in May of 2005 before a matching donor could be found. Five months after his transplant, William was back on the waiting list in need of a second liver transplant. His recovery was going very well, when he suddenly fell ill again. William received a lifesaving liver transplant. He was airlifted to UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Fla., and immediately put on the transplant waiting list. William,16, died while waiting for a second liver transplant. His condition worsened, and doctors discovered that he did not have the flu. William was an active, healthy honor student when he developed flu-like symptoms just after Christmas in 2004. Kim built her life and career around promoting organ donation and sharing her son’s story in an effort to help others and keep his memory alive. “Who would have believed that our stories would have such a twist?” “All of those years that I was telling William’s story, I never expected that I would be the one who would become a recipient,” Kim said. Kim received donor bone during an eight-hour spinal fusion surgery to repair and strengthen her spine in 2021. Kim McMahon, William’s mother and a tissue recipient, will represent the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) as a rider on the 2022 Donate Life Rose Parade float. More than 10 years after the unexpected death of 16-year-old William Rollings McMahon of Pensacola, his mother is getting ready to celebrate the impact and shared legacy of his life in an extraordinary way. For more information, visit OneLegacy.Kim was chosen to ride on the 2022 Rose Parade float. Becoming an eye, organ or tissue donor is easy and can be done by registering online at /OneLegacy or by “checking YES” at your local DMV. It serves more than 200 hospitals, 10 transplant centers, a diverse population of 20 million donors and families across the region and waiting recipients across the country. OneLegacy is the nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives through organ, eye and tissue donation in seven counties in Southern California: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara and Kern. Register today to become an organ, eye or tissue donor by visiting.
The opportunity to donate and to receive a lifesaving transplant knows no national, racial, ethnic or religious boundaries, nor sexual orientation.
One organ donor can save up to eight lives, and one tissue donor can help as many as 75 others heal. The float inspires viewers to help the more than one million people worldwide in need of organ, eye or tissue transplants each year. A lush dedication garden features individually dedicated roses completes the beautiful Venetian scene, along with blue and white waves, representing the flowing Venice canals.Īs the world’s most visible campaign to inspire organ, eye and tissue donation, the Donate Life Rose Parade float is produced by OneLegacy and dozens of sponsoring donation, transplant, healthcare, and family care organizations and individuals who help make donation and transplantation possible across the country. The float will also feature stylized Venetian colonnades adorned with memorial 35 floral portraits – or “floragraphs” - honoring the gift of life and hope given by deceased donors. The float will carry 19 transplant recipients seated on Venice’s quintessential gondolas while five living donors will walk alongside the float on the 5 ½ mile parade route. The 2022 Donate Life float, “ Courage to Hope,” features the majestic, winged Lion of Venice from Italy’s Piazza San Marco or Saint Mark’s Square, set amidst the Venetian Gothic architecture of the Doge’s Palace or Palazzo Ducale. Our float helps call attention to this need and will hopefully motivate individuals from around the world to register to be a donor.” “Nationally there are approximately 107,000 people waiting to receive a lifesaving heart, liver, lung, kidney or pancreas transplant but there are simply not enough donors to meet the growing need.
“The Rose Parade is an American institution, and after its cancellation last year due to the pandemic we are excited to once again be part of this tradition and to have the opportunity to share our inspiring message about the power of donation,” said Tom Mone, CEO of OneLegacy, the nonprofit organ, eye and tissue recovery organization serving seven Southern California counties and lead sponsor of the Donate Life float. in Pasadena to share the simple yet the powerful message that organ, tissue and eye donation saves lives. LOS ANGELES-( BUSINESS WIRE)-On New Year’s Day, the 133 rd Rose Parade® will return in all its glory, and the inspiring Donate Life float will make its 19 th trip down Colorado Blvd.
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