Spokane connection on Discovery Health
Two years ago, I wrote about an unusual visit between strangers. Catherine Beckman of Colorado Springs traveled to Spokane to see the parents of a boy named Joshua. Beckman had received Joshua’s heart in a 1991 transplant after the 11-year-old newspaper carrier was hit by a car and killed.
Saturday at 6 p.m. (Pacific) on the Discovery Health Channel, Beckman tells her story on "Transplanting Memories." The program explores the eerie idea that some transplant patients get new personal preferences and unexplained talents along with the new organs.
Joshua’s parents apparently asked that his name not be used on the TV program. When I interviewed them in 2001, their religious beliefs conflicted with Beckman’s feeling that a little bit of Joshua lived on with her.
