Patrick Brett, a guidance counselor and assistant baseball coach at North Penn High School, has been in and out of hospitals for most of his life, but a heart and liver transplant has made sure he is staying in the game, writes Matteo Iadonisi for 6ABC.

Brett explained that just two years ago he was in the hospital, waiting to see if he was approved for two new organs.

“To look back and think where I was then to where I am now is just, it’s almost unfathomable,” he said.

Brett, a Blue Bell resident, discovered he had ventricular tachycardia just before his 14th birthday after passing out on the basketball court. By his early thirties, his health had deteriorated to the point that he needed a heart and liver transplant to survive.

Through it all though, he never lost his passion for sports. Having to give up playing his favorite sports as a teen, he decided to become a coach to keep connected to the game.

Now after receiving a new heart and liver, he is able to do things he never could before. One of those things is to be an active part of his three children’s athletic careers.

Brett coaches his four-year old son’s quickball team and his wife coaches his daughters in softball. He says he was truly giving the gift of life.

“It doesn’t take much to become an organ donor,” Brett said. “Your legacy will live on within somebody else like my donor’s legacy is living on in me.”

Anyone can register to become an organ donor at the Gift of Life Donor Program.

Learn more about Patrick Brett at 6ABC.

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Gift of Life Donor Program.