Pennsylvania kidney recipient celebrates 2nd chance at life during National Minority Donor Awareness Month

Gift of Life Donor Program grants Pennsylvania man second chance at life 02:00

WILLOW GROVE, Pa. (CBS) — August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month, and right now, millions of people of color are on the transplant list for a new organ as one man shared his journey of survival.

Tuesday was the first time James Harris and Lee Detwiler had seen each other since Harris’ kidney transplant in June. Detweiler was Harris’ dialysis social worker.

Harris remembered how hard Detwiler worked to get him off treatment at DaVita Abington Dialysis in Willow Grove…

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