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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, When a citizen, through the kindness of her heart, |
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| offers one of her own organs to another, it is an action to be |
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| commended; and
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| WHEREAS, Patsy Donahue is a fourth grade teacher at |
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| Oster-Oakview School in New Lenox School District 122; on |
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| Monday, May 1, 2006, Ms. Donahue underwent an operation to |
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| donate one of her healthy kidneys to Brandon Shafer, a fourth |
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| grade student in her class; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Donahue previously served in the Peace Corps |
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| and began working in her first full-time teaching job this |
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| year; she considers it "divine intervention" that brought her |
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| home from the Peace Corps and found her as the teacher of young |
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| Mr. Shafer; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Shafer was diagnosed with polycystic kidney |
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| disease two years ago, a disease that covers both the inside |
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| and outside of the kidneys in cysts; as a result of his |
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| illness, he took five medications a day, including shots that |
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| he administered himself; his mother had volunteered one of her |
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| kidneys, but was not a perfect match; Patsy Donahue's kidney |
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| was; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Donahue says that she donated the kidney |
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| because her father was the recipient of a bone marrow donation; |
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| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we recognize Patsy Donahue for the selfless act of the donation |
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| of one of her healthy kidneys to Brandon Shafer, one of her |
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| fourth grade students at Oster-Oakview School; and be it |
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| further
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