Two-time transplant recipient Will Jay finds a new way to win

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Once the perfect athlete, two-time transplant recipient Will Jay finds a

new way to win.

Jay,

29, started earning his own medical qualifications for the games, which are

held every two years, in 2004. Up to then, he’d

spent his life as a natural athlete, including three years running track at

University of Tennessee, by his own admission a typical “cocky”

sprinter—the kind of guy who didn’t even think about signing up as

an organ donor. “I’d just taken a teaching

job at Cedar Bluff Middle

School,” he says.

“That was right before it started.” It. Feeling tired.

In October 2004, after a liver biopsy, Jay got his diagnosis: primary sclerosing cholangitis or PSC. “The doctor told me that day, ‘There’s

no cure,’ and the treatment would be a liver transplant……..”

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