Legally Blind Veteran's Organs Taken, Including Eyes

Lawsuit claims VA hospital harvested organs from non-donor 
WSMV News
Posted: May 18, 2015

MURFREESBORO, TN (WSMV) - A widow in Murfreesboro told Channel 4 her husband's organs were donated, but he was not a donor.

Medical records show that when Kevrek Frierson asked if he wanted to be an organ donor, he said no. He was legally blind, yet records show his eyes and several other organs were donated.

Left to right: Wanda, Kevrek and Myia Frierson

Wanda Frierson said she honored her husband Kevrek Frierson's wishes in life. She was distraught they aren't being honored in death.

"This wasn't right," she said.

Kevrek Frierson had diabetes and several other illnesses when he went to the Veterans Administration hospital in Murfreesboro. He fell gravely ill in June 2014.

After multiple trips to the hospital, he died.

"I just felt like something was not right and I just remember I said, 'Dad, I love you,'" said Myia Frierson, the couple's daughter. "And he said, 'Myia, I love you, too.' And that was the last thing I said to him."

Adding to their pain, the family said Tennessee Donor Services immediately rushed to collect Kevrek Frierson's organs. But they said he wasn't an organ donor.

"I told them it was in his medical records that he is not a donor," Wanda Frierson said. "He never was one."
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