Renewed life: Father meets son’s organ recipients
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) – Despite hushed whispers, the tapping of nervous feet, and the clicking of iPhone cameras, all was silent for West Kentucky Community & Technical College’s men’s basketball coach Michael Chumbler on Feb. 27 as he stood to meet two complete strangers in the campus gymnasium.
The three men were already connected, however, by one common factor, the life of 20-year-old Kam Chumbler, Michael’s son who passed away last May. Michael was meeting for the first time the men who are living because of his son’s organ donations.
A few weeks ago, Chumbler mailed personally written letters to each transplant recipient, asking them to attend a basketball game being played in Kam’s honor so he could see the lives his son saved.
