Marine Organ Donor Family and Recipient Aim To Meet

Marine Organ Donor Family and Recipient Aim To Meet
By RESHMA KIRPALANI
August 15, 2011

Sgt. Jacob Chadwick, 23, left, received a lifesaving kidney from Lt. Patrick Wayland, 24, right, who died after going into cardiac arrest on Aug. 1, 2011. (ABC News)

On Aug. 7, Sgt. Jacob Chadwick, 23, of San Marcos, Calif., underwent a four-and-a-half hour kidney transplant at UC San Diego Medical Center that saved his life. His kidney donor was a fellow marine, 24-year-old Lt. Patrick Wayland from Midland, Texas, who went into cardiac arrest on Aug. 1 at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida.

Now, both the Wayland and the Chadwick families have told ABCNews.com that they would like to meet, when the Waylands have moved pass the aftershocks of grief and Chadwick has healed from his surgery.

"What they did was pretty great," Chadwick said. "A piece of their son is keeping me alive. Eventually, I think they should [get to know the person] who their son's kidney went to."
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