 Santa knows where to find all the best and hottest smart phones just in time to make this Christmas better and bigger than ever. Better service, bigger savings, that's today's Appalachian Wireless. Tis the season of giving and want better gift to give or to receive than the gift of life. Those who have been touched by organ transplantation gathered this evening at Pikeville Medical Center who in partnership with the Kentucky organ donor affiliates held a tree lighting ceremony called the Tree of Life. We have a huge donate ambassador group here in eastern Kentucky and nearing our time here tonight you're going to hear various stories from different recipients who just share the importance of what donation has done for them because without their donor they would not be able to be here tonight. My donor was incarcerated. The doctors told me that that day but told me that the liver had checked out well. He was only 32 years old at the time and he was actually on the phone with this mother whenever he was shanked in the throat and he saved five people's lives. Someone got the lungs, I got the liver, two people got the kidneys and they flew the heart somewhere else. If it was not for organ donation and for my donor's mother making that decision I would not be here today. Often the decision to become an organ donor is a last minute decision made by family members during a difficult time but that doesn't always have to be the case. You know tonight is another wonderful opportunity to become a living donor. A lot of people, you know the decision is made for them. Here at Parkville Medical Center we have a wonderful staff that work with CODA and you know a lot of families are faced with that decision in a really hard time anyway. It's really good to learn about organ donation before your family is faced with that decision and that's something you can do today. Not just at the sliding ceremony but any day. Learn about organ donation and what it can do for people. It's really a life changer on so many different levels. For more information on Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates visit the web address listed on your screen. Reporting from Pikeville, I'm Shawn Allen for EKB News.