The only question was who would be
the donor.
“Grace and I actually competed to
see who would get the opportunity!”
Cole recalls with a smile, “we were
training hard before going through the
tests that would determine who would
be a better donor. The doctors want
someone with high VO2 max scores
(a measure of how efficiently your
body uses oxygen) as it means you’ll
recover faster. Of course, the size and
shape of your liver, and your blood
type also matters.”
Now, before you dismiss this as
an uneven match-up, you must
understand Grace is no slouch herself.
The former managing director of a
Fortune 500 company is a product of
the prestigious West Point military
academy and was one of the very few
Asian women in her cohort. And do not
let her gender fool you, Grace was the
second-fittest graduate, losing to a
male compatriot by only 0.001 point. At
her peak, she was hitting 114 push-ups
and 109 sit-ups in two minutes and
ran two miles or 3.2 kilometres in 12
minutes 36 seconds.
When the both of them went through
the tests, Cole was deemed to be a
better candidate for ѡ