ST. LOUIS — Sunday was Transplant Awareness Day at Busch Stadium in St. Louis and thousands of baseball fans attended the afternoon game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds to support organ donation.
One of the people attending the game had an unexpected meeting with the man who received her brother's heart. Video of the emotional encounter is going viral.
This is what Savannah Chavez Roesch posted to Facebook:
Her brother was an organ donor and a year ago her family received a letter from the recipient.
"It's such an intense feeling knowing you are so close to contact but really no idea who they are," Roesch wrote.
Roesch wrote that she isn't a baseball fan (at all) but they went to Busch Stadium for the Donate Life day. During the game they were getting a family picture taken – all wearing T-shirts with Donovan's photo – when she heard someone ask if they were his family.
She described what happened next, writing:
The man took turns holding Roesch and her family members to his chest so they could listen to Donovan's heart beat, all of them overcome by the moment.
"I think Donovan arranged for us to meet this way," Roesch wrote. "What are the chances of this happening?!?"