He may be a bit biased, but Robbie Thompson thinks everyone should sign up to be an organ donor.
Thompson is on his third heart. He was born with a condition called idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.
“Basically, the left side of my heart was just way too massive,” Thompson says, sitting at the BC Transplant booth at the Campbell River Community Centre last week in recognition of National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week.
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