5/5/2023 0 Comments Nhl 21 logo![]() ![]() Hehn’s story started when she was having mysterious medical symptoms as a teenager. It’s got its own legs in all corners of the country and into the (United) States. “It can’t always be the Boulets saying the story. “She’s from Saskatchewan and she’s doing really well,” he said. “It’s hard to believe it has been five years.”īoulet added that Hehn’s T-shirt design for Green Shirt Day this year is “really cool” and her personal story is inspiring. “Logan’s story has touched a lot of people,” he said. Logan’s father, Toby Boulet, said his family felt it was important to talk about his son’s donation from the beginning and it ballooned from there. Photo by Michael Bell / The Canadian Press ![]() ![]() The two-time organ recipient designed this year’s Green Shirt Day logo for the five-year anniversary of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. Four months after her 2009 liver transplant, Hehn developed a staph infection in her wrist due to her weakened immune system from the transplant medication resulting in surgery and the scar. “Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have registered their decisions about organ donation or had a conversation with people they love about how they feel about it.”īrandy Hehn, 39, displays a large scar on her wrist at her home in Regina on Thursday, March 16, 2023. The Logan Boulet Effect, said Shemie, continues to start conversations. “Bless that family for what they’ve done in his honour,” he said in an interview. Sam Shemie, medical adviser for deceased organ donation with Canadian Blood Services, said donations have been “relatively steady” in the five years since Boulet’s death. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It includes 29 gold stars for everyone on the bus, two hockey sticks for those who put them on their porches after the crash and the social media hashtag #LoganBouletEffect. Hehn, a multimedia designer who’s now a two-time organ recipient, created this year’s T-shirt - its design inspired by the Pittsburgh Penguins logo and team captain, Sidney Crosby, whom Boulet admired since he was a boy. It led to Green Shirt Day every April 7, the anniversary of Boulet’s death, to promote organ donor awareness and registration across Canada. Canadian Blood Services said nearly 150,000 Canadians registered to be donors in the two months after learning he had signed his donor card. Six people across Canada benefited from Boulet’s organs and the Logan Boulet Effect soon followed. Logan Boulet, 21, had signed up to be an organ donor on his birthday - five weeks before the bus crash. Hehn was not on a recipient list at that time, but she said everyone in the room looked around and wondered if anyone they knew got their long-awaited kidney transplant. “She said, ‘Did you know one of the boys was an organ donor?”‘ Hehn recalled in an interview from Regina. Hehn, now 39, remembers a nurse walking into the room where she was getting a dialysis treatment a couple of days later and commenting on the crash. The next issue of Calgary Herald Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way. ![]()
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