Family spreading organ donation message after 2-year-old receives new heart
KSL | Devon Dolan
SALT LAKE CITY â€" Organ donation has been in the news a lot this week after the family of a young Philadelphia girl successfully challenged a policy that kept her from receiving lungs from an adult donor. She got those new lungs Wednesday.
A Utah family got a similar call earlier this week â€" in this case, for a heart. Julie Alexander, whose 2-year-old son received that heart, says children in need of organ donations deserve a second chance, and no one can fully understand that until they've experienced it themselves.
In January, Zack Alexander was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, or congested heart failure. His young heart was functioning at only 20 percent, and in March doctors at Primary Children's Medical Center put him on the transplant list.
"We were here 89 days waiting for a heart, and on Tuesday morning we got a call for a heart," Julie Alexander said.
That night, Zack underwent successful heart transplant surgery.
"It was like all of the sudden there was going to be a light at the end of the tunnel," Julie said.
A Utah family got a similar call earlier this week â€" in this case, for a heart. Julie Alexander, whose 2-year-old son received that heart, says children in need of organ donations deserve a second chance, and no one can fully understand that until they've experienced it themselves.
In January, Zack Alexander was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, or congested heart failure. His young heart was functioning at only 20 percent, and in March doctors at Primary Children's Medical Center put him on the transplant list.
"We were here 89 days waiting for a heart, and on Tuesday morning we got a call for a heart," Julie Alexander said.
That night, Zack underwent successful heart transplant surgery.
"It was like all of the sudden there was going to be a light at the end of the tunnel," Julie said.
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LETS BE PERFECTLY HONEST. THERE IS NO HOPE UNLESS EVERYONE REGISTERS TO BE AN ORGAN, EYE AND TISSUE DONOR. THE TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST IS NEARING 120,000 AND THERE IS SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH ORGANS TO GO AROUND.
LETS BE PERFECTLY HONEST. THERE IS NO HOPE UNLESS EVERYONE REGISTERS TO BE AN ORGAN, EYE AND TISSUE DONOR. THE TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST IS NEARING 120,000 AND THERE IS SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH ORGANS TO GO AROUND.
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"You have the power to SAVE lives."
To register as a donor in California:
www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org | www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org
Outside California:
www.organdonor.gov | www.donatelife.net
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