article_snippet: A bond between two longtime family friends has deepened after both Michigan men received organs from the same donor.
article_snippet: The operations were held at the exact same time at a Grand Rapids hospital last June.
article_snippet: these two friends suffered from chronic conditions that caused these two friends health to rapidly deteriorate before these two friends transplants.
article_snippet: Godron Veldman (left) and Fred Nelis (right) transplants .
article_snippet: Then on June 18, 2014, these two friends received a call - the wait was over.
article_snippet: these two friends were these two friends admitted to Spectrum Health and underwent transplants, with Nelis getting a new heart and Veldman new lungs.
article_snippet: these two friends have rebounded since the operations.
article_snippet: these two friends known little about these two friends 32-year-old donor, however were able to send a letter to the man's family through Gift of Life Michigan.
article_snippet: say a single organ donor saved a single organ donor .
highlights_snippet: Both received a call on June 18, 2014, that a donor had been found .
  
highlights_snippet: Both underwent transplants on the same day at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan .
  
highlights_snippet: Both have rebounded and put Both heart and lungs together each meeting .