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Mother of South Carolina organ donor meets her son's kidney recipient

Kaye Dorsey's son, BJ, lives on through his decision to be an organ donor

Mother of South Carolina organ donor meets her son's kidney recipient

Kaye Dorsey's son, BJ, lives on through his decision to be an organ donor

TODAY. TOMORROW MORNING, STARTING AT 4:30 A.M. NEW AT SIX. AN UPSTATE MOTHER LOSES HER SON, BUT HE LEFT BEHIND THE GIFT OF LIFE. SHE WAS RECENTLY ABLE TO MEET ONE OF THE ORGAN RECIPIENTS. A RASHAD WILLIAMS HAS THE STORY YOU’LL SEE ONLY ON WYFF NEWS FOUR. B.J. WAS A VERY HUMBLE GENTLEMAN. AS A MOTHER WHO LOVED HER CHILD, KAY DORSEY SAYS HER SON, B.J. SIGAFOOS, WAS HER ROCK, FUN, FUNNY AS ALL GET OUT. HE LOVED TO RIDE MOTORCYCLES. HE IS A GEORGIA BULLDOG FAN ALL THE WAY. WOULD GIVE MAMA A HARD TIME WHEN IT CAME TO CAROLINA VERSUS GEORGIA. THE 26 YEAR OLD WAS HIT BY ANOTHER VEHICLE WHILE RIDING HIS MOTORCYCLE IN JANUARY OF LAST YEAR, AND DIED DAYS LATER IN THE HOSPITAL. PERHAPS THIS IS THE MOMENT FOR WHICH HE WAS CREATED. GOD ONLY LOANS THEM TO US FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THE BUMBLEBEE STORY KAY CALLED BJ HABIBIE, ALTHOUGH BJ HAS LEFT THE HIVE AND IS NO LONGER HERE, SOMETIMES FULFILLING OUR LIFE’S PURPOSE HAPPENS AFTER WE’RE GONE. BJ WAS AN ORGAN DONOR, A LIFE WAS LOST, BUT SEVERAL OTHER LIVES WERE ABLE TO GO ON IN A TIME THAT HE WOULD NOT NO LONGER NEED THOSE ORGANS THAT SOMEBODY ELSE COULD WATCH THEIR GRANDKIDS PLAY BASEBALL TO WATCH THEIR CHILDREN GROW UP AND TO FULFILL SOME MORE LIFE DREAMS AND FOR THE FAMILY WHO SHARES THE LEGACY OF OUR HERO TODAY, HE MADE HIS HONOR WALK AND HE WAS ABLE TO DONATE HIS HEART, HIS KIDNEYS AND HIS LIVER TO FOUR DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE AT LIVINGSTON LIVES IN CHARLOTTE. SHE WAS ON DIALYSIS FOR NINE MONTHS AND NEEDED A NEW KIDNEY. BJ’S RIGHT KIDNEY WAS A PERFECT MATCH. SO YOU DON’T REALIZE HOW SICK YOU ARE UNTIL YOU GET THE TRANSPLANT. AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT’S LIKE, WOW, I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW GREAT I FEEL, AND I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW LONG I FELT AWFUL. MICHELLE AND KAY WERE ABLE TO MEET FACE TO FACE THIS YEAR. IT WAS SPECIAL, ALLOWING KAY TO MAINTAIN A LIFELONG PROMISE SHE MADE TO HER SON. I PROMISED HIM WHEN HE WAS AT THE HOSPITAL THAT HE WOULD NEVER BECOME HE WAS, THAT HE WOULD ALWAYS BE AND IS. SO I TELL HIM, FOREVER. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY IS BECAUSE WAS HIS GET FORGOTTEN AND HE WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. IN
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Mother of South Carolina organ donor meets her son's kidney recipient

Kaye Dorsey's son, BJ, lives on through his decision to be an organ donor

Kaye Dorsey frequently visits Boiling Springs Memorial Gardens, which is the final resting place for her son William "BJ" Sigafoos.The 26-year-old died in January of 2023 after being hit by a car while he was riding his motorcycle.“BJ was a very humble gentleman," Dorsey said. "Fun and funny as all get out. He loved to ride motorcycles. He is a Georgia Bulldogs fan all the way. Would give mama a hard time when it came to Carolina versus Georgia.”Dorsey said BJ was also an organ donor.“Perhaps this is the moment for which he was created," Dorsey said. "God only loans him to us for a short period of time. In a time that he would no longer need those organs, that somebody else could watch their grandkids kids play baseball, to watch their children grow up and to fulfill some more life’s dreams. God needed him to help save these people’s lives through the organ donation.”Dorsey said BJ was able to donate his heart, kidneys and liver to four different people. Dorsey was able to recently meet two of the recipients, including right kidney recipient Michele Livingston who lives in Charlotte."Meeting Kaye was special," Livingston said. "Being a mom myself, it’s very difficult. I can’t imagine how hard it must’ve been for her. I’m so happy that she was able to make that choice and help so many of us. You don’t realize how sick you are until you get the transplant, and then all of a sudden, it’s like wow, I can’t believe how great I feel and I can’t believe how long I felt awful.”Dorsey said she finds comfort in knowing that her son is still able to make an impact on the world even after his passing. Dorsey said she made a lifelong promise to her son before he passed.“I promised him when he was at the hospital that he would never become a was and that he would always be an is," Dorsey said. "So, I tell him forever you will always be my IS, because WASs get forgotten and he will never be forgotten.”

Kaye Dorsey frequently visits Boiling Springs Memorial Gardens, which is the final resting place for her son William "BJ" Sigafoos.

The 26-year-old died in January of 2023 after being hit by a car while he was riding his motorcycle.

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“BJ was a very humble gentleman," Dorsey said. "Fun and funny as all get out. He loved to ride motorcycles. He is a Georgia Bulldogs fan all the way. Would give mama a hard time when it came to Carolina versus Georgia.”

Dorsey said BJ was also an organ donor.

“Perhaps this is the moment for which he was created," Dorsey said. "God only loans him to us for a short period of time. In a time that he would no longer need those organs, that somebody else could watch their grandkids kids play baseball, to watch their children grow up and to fulfill some more life’s dreams. God needed him to help save these people’s lives through the organ donation.”

Dorsey said BJ was able to donate his heart, kidneys and liver to four different people. Dorsey was able to recently meet two of the recipients, including right kidney recipient Michele Livingston who lives in Charlotte.

"Meeting Kaye was special," Livingston said. "Being a mom myself, it’s very difficult. I can’t imagine how hard it must’ve been for her. I’m so happy that she was able to make that choice and help so many of us. You don’t realize how sick you are until you get the transplant, and then all of a sudden, it’s like wow, I can’t believe how great I feel and I can’t believe how long I felt awful.”

Dorsey said she finds comfort in knowing that her son is still able to make an impact on the world even after his passing. Dorsey said she made a lifelong promise to her son before he passed.

“I promised him when he was at the hospital that he would never become a was and that he would always be an is," Dorsey said. "So, I tell him forever you will always be my IS, because WASs get forgotten and he will never be forgotten.”