Article: Transplant gives parents, child hope

by Shannon on September 10, 2006

By ANDREW SKERRITT
Published September 10, 2006

When I met Elizabeth “Elly” Hulett, she was a handful – more than I expected.

She jumped around the living room with her grandmother Sandra Hulett and danced on a counter top. Mrs. Hulett held Elly’s hands like a dance partner, beaming the way only adoring grandmothers do.

The 3-year-old is two months removed from a bone marrow transplant to combat the life threatening . . . Read More >

After her husband received a double-lung (bilateral) transplant in 2004, Shannon founded the Angel Cove Organ Donation Awareness Shop, which provides awareness t-shirts and gifts products for transplant recipients, living organ donors and donor families - giving 100% of the profits to help heart and lung transplant recipients with medical costs. Shannon lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her wonderful husband and two chocolate Labrador Retrievers and can be found online on Twitter and her Organ Donation Awareness Facebook Page. Find out more on Shannon's Google Profile.

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