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Tina Watson shares how organ donation blessed her life
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April 3, 2026
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Tina Watson of Shelley spoke at an event at EIRMC Friday morning in commemoration of Donate Life Month. She is alive today because of a young woman who donated her liver and kidney 27 years ago.
"My donor, Katie, was a BYU student in Provo, Utah. She and some friends had gone skiing and while she was coming down the hill, she got caught in her skis and tripped and slid down the hill," Watson says. "When she came to a stop, she hit a tree at the base of her skull and didn’t wake up from that moment on."
Watson was living in Idaho Falls at the time and recalls her mother getting a phone call telling her to get to Salt Lake City for surgery.
"I have now been alive longer than I was sick. That’s a whole other lifetime," Watson says. "I have so many nieces and nephews that have been born, I’ve seen them grow, they're going to college, they’re getting married, and it’s just amazing."
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