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Narrowly escaped having his organs harvested, lived to become a musician and father
Last edited Thu Sep 11, 2025, 06:59 PM - Edit history (1)
"Lying on top of an operating room table with his chest exposed, Larry Black Jr. was moments away from having his organs harvested when a doctor ran breathlessly into the room.
“Get him off the table,” the doctor recalled telling the surgical team at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital as the team cleaned Black’s chest and abdomen. “This is my patient. Get him off the table.”
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Black, his 22-year-old patient, had arrived at the hospital with a gunshot wound to the back of the head on March 24, 2019. A week later, he was taken to surgery to have his organs removed for donation — even though his heart was beating and he hadn’t been declared brain-dead, Zohny said.
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Today, Black, now 28, is a musician and the father of three children. He still needs regular physical therapy for lingering health issues from the gun injury. And Black said he is haunted by what he remembers from those days while he was lying in a medically induced coma.".... (more)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/health/organ-donor-surgery-kff-health-news
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Here it is, and I have now edited the original post to include it. 
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/health/organ-donor-surgery-kff-health-news
this amazing story of Larry Black Jr.
Thank Goodness for Dr Zohny 
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