SAN ANTONIO – This month, the KSAT community is hoping to save hundreds of lives by encouraging everyone to celebrate Organ Donor Month.
Andy Post, a music teacher, is healthy today, thanks to an organ donation in 2014.
"I had a virus attack my heart and it was diagnosed as viral cardiomyopathy," Post said.
The music teacher's heart was being badly damaged, and after 15 years of struggling with it, he needed a new one to live.
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"I was not in good shape," he said. "We were at death's door. It was hard for me just to stand. Your heart is supposed to be the size of a fist. Mine was two and a half fists in size."
Then, just when he was about to die from heart failure, a lifesaver came along -- a family who donated their loved one's organ so that Post could live.
"People choose to donate organs, and I am a walking miracle and so are all the other recipients, because it's a matter of life and death," he said.
Post said he owes his life to the organ donor registry and the family who gave selflessly.
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"I feel every day, multiple times every day, right now, I feel my heart beat and know I share this heart with my heart donor, and that person is living on in me," Post said.
His newfound energy is now devoted not only to his music and his students, but to the Texas Organ Sharing registry and donatelifetexas.org as he celebrates life one sweet heartbeat at a time.
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