At just 17 years old, Jim Stavis was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes and warned that serious health problems could eventually follow, including heart and kidney disease.

Years later, those warnings became reality.

In 2005, Jim received an extraordinary second chance at life through a triple-organ transplant — heart, kidney, and pancreas.

On Episode 133 of Gift of Life – The Organ Transplant Podcast, Jim joins BJ Odom to share his remarkable journey from a teenager facing an uncertain future to the man he is today.

Jim takes us through the challenges of living with diabetes, the progression of his health problems, the road to transplantation, and what it meant to receive three life-saving organs.

But this story is about much more than Jim.

We also shine a spotlight on the person who made Jim’s second chance possible — his donor, Brice Fabian — and the Fabian family. Jim shares the powerful connection between his transplant journey, his donor, and the gratitude that continues to shape his life.

Jim is also the author of When Hope Is Your Only Option and his story is featured in the documentary Source of Hope.

This is a story about survival, perseverance, organ donation, gratitude, and what can happen when — even during the darkest moments — you refuse to give up hope.

 Listen to Episode 133 and please share Jim’s story.

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BJ Odom’s Book

More Parts Than A Chicken Nugget
A Story of Survival, Second Chances, and the Family That Held Me Together

Available on Amazon in paperback and eBook.

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