IOPO®: Indiana Organ Procurement Organization, Inc.

Donation Stories

Profiles of recipients of the gift of life and the donors who saved them.

David Peck Story Photo

David Peck, Age 7, Kennard, IN

The First Child in Indiana to Receive an Intestinal Transplant

Ask second grader David Peck what he wants to be when he grows up and he will tell you racecar driver or doctor. He has friends in both professions. He already demonstrates at least two of the qualities that make his role models tops in their fields: courage and discipline.

He met NASCAR champion Tony Stewart at a hospital fundraiser and has spent most of his life in the care of some of the best doctors in medicine. David was the first pediatric intestinal transplant recipient in Indiana. He was only two years old.

Today he can walk you through the medications he takes daily to ward off infection and organ rejection. His mother, Traci, says he walks to the OR with his doctor for his semi-annual colonoscopies that are necessary to monitor the health of his transplanted organ (he only has one fourth of his own colon) and he doesn’t complain about essential blood work every two months.

David is an avid sports fan and does his best to keep up with two older brothers. He plays baseball, basketball and looks forward to third grade when he’ll even be able to play football.