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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Family, coworkers, and friends gathered successful the hallways astatine Community Regional's Neuro ICU hallway to grant Patrice Sanders, a longtime vale caregiver who was being wheeled into country to donate her organs.
Patrice Sanders's sister described her arsenic idiosyncratic who was kind, giving, and ever consenting to assistance others.
"She loved well, and was good loved, and is continuing to emotion others that she doesn't adjacent know," said Paige Sanders, Patrice's sister.
Patrice was a caregiver astatine Valley Children's Hospital for 36 years dedicating her beingness to helping others.
In June aft suffering a stroke, Patrice was rushed to Community but doctors told her household her prognosis would not beryllium good.
"Patrice was truly wide successful her end-of-life instructions that she did not privation to unrecorded with disabilities," said Paige. "And truthful we arsenic a household knew that we needed to grant her wishes."
Jacklyn Manzanedo is the elder manager of Donation Development with Donor Network West who facilitates organ and insubstantial donation present successful the Central Valley.
"For Community Regional Medical Center to facilitate an grant locomotion to grant an organ donor is an incredibly peculiar lawsuit for some the families and loved ones of the donor, arsenic good arsenic the hospital's unit to grant the diligent they've been caring for," said Manzanedo.
For much accusation connected organ donation, or however to go a donor similar Patrice, sojourn donornetworkwest.org.
