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The FBI delivers Jen a modern-day miracle.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who have had a loved one in need of an organ transplant, unfortunately, know too well about the grueling long wait on the UNOS list, which is a mental and emotional rollercoaster and heart-wrenching experience watching your loved one, and even worse, your child, growing weaker and slowly dying while waiting for their number to come up on the list and receive the news that their organ(s) have arrived. (UNOS – United Network for Organ Sharing. The private, non-profit organization that manages the U.S. organ transplantation system under contract with the Federal government).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They work tirelessly to optimize our nation\u2019s transplant system to save more lives. Organ transplant by the numbers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RIGHT NOW, <\/strong>104,056 people need an organ transplant*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THIS YEAR <\/strong>14,143 donors (Jan \u2013 July 2024)*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LED TO<\/strong> 28,359 transplants (Jan \u2013 July 2024)*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*As of 9\/03\/2024 UNOS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to our modern-day miracle, 22-year-old Jen Dunlea\u2019s incredible story! An employee of the FBI\u2019s family wished to donate their deceased young adult’s organs to people in need of organ transplants who are a part of the FBI family — those who have a solid connection to the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, August 17th afternoon, Laurel Wyner Dunlea\u2019s (Jen\u2019s mom’s) good college friend and sorority sister at the University of Delaware, Bridgit, received a digital message from her son, Luke, who works for the FBI. He noticed an important organizational email regarding an FBI employee who lost their life, and his family made the very agonizing and timely decision to donate their child\u2019s organs to others who need this precious life-saving gift. Luke astutely messaged his family about this critical email, and Bridgit sprang into action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bridgit sent text and phone messages to Jen\u2019s mom, Laurel, on the afternoon of Friday, August 16, and the ball started rolling. Many calls were quickly exchanged between the FBI\u2019s family representative, Laurel, Bridgit, and the NYU Langone pulmonary transplant team to check if, at the very least, the blood type and body size were a match. Jen and Laurel also reached out to Jen\u2019s step-uncle, Steven, who recently retired from the FBI, and he contacted the family’s FBI representative to vouch for Jen and his connection to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday morning, August 17, the process of delivering the lungs to Jen, who had already been an inpatient at NYU hospital since July for worsening organ rejection disease, was in motion. Jen was wheeled into the operating room at 4:30 pm that day, and her new lungs were flown in by helicopter to NYU on the East River and delivered to the OR around 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jen had been waiting on the lung transplant list in the Philadelphia area for over two years, and her window for a successful double-lung transplant was closing\u2026 not to mention a second transplant, which is a critical high-risk surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After fighting Cystic Fibrosis (CF) her entire life, the mom and daughter duo haven\u2019t had many breaks or good news since Jen was diagnosed at 2 \u00bd years old. Laurel had routinely said that CF is a ruthless chronic disease that takes no prisoners and doesn\u2019t deliver happy endings, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a CF tale.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this rarely heard direct donation is a true miracle and a happy tale in their journey with CF. They will continue sharing their story with others, educating, creating awareness, and advocating for HOPE  within and beyond CF and organ donation communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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