Organ and Tissue Donation. “I Get a Transplant Once a Century”: These Donations That Changed His Life

Serge Grandvaux still remembers it perfectly. That first warning, that time he was told he had an eye problem. "It was in 1966. At the time, before military service, there were three mandatory days of pre-selection. So I couldn't do my military service," explains this Mouchard resident, born in 1948. So he returned to his studies, to the École Normale Supérieure. His goal: to become a teacher.

"Again, there was very strict medical monitoring. That's when I was told I had bilateral keratoconus. " That is, a deformation of the cornea (a transparent membrane located on the front of the eye. The cornea protects the eye; it looks like a...

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