Here’s a story that brings tears to my eyes. Two babies received transplants in Columbus. Both would have died without them. One baby needed lungs and the other needed a heart. When a donor became available (rest his/her soul) the doctors took Jason’s (the lungs) heart and gave it to Kayla and then gave Jason both heart and lungs from the donor.
Jason Wolfe, age four months, had developed pulmonary hypertension. His lungs were dying.“We thought we were going to lose our son and we told the doctors at the time that, you know, if anything happened to him, we wanted him to be an organ donor, [to] help somebody else out,” says Mike Wolfe, Jason’s father.
Kayla Richardson, age three months, was born six weeks too soon. The right side of her heart didn’t develop properly.
“Her lungs were fine. It was just her heart,” says Robert Richardson, Kayla’s father.
Kayla was put on a heart-lung machine to keep her alive. Both parents were told their children would die without a transplant.
This is heartwrenching and warming to me because I lost my son to Potter’s Syndrome minutes after he was born. He needed lungs because his didn’t develop. They told me that there was no hope for him. It was unanimous at the time that he would die and there was nothing anyone could do to help him. That was July 2003.
It is very sad that one mother had to lose her baby, but a miracle two-fold that these babies survived because of it. I’m happy for both Jason’s and Kayla’s parents. I hope their children live long enough to give all of them grey hair.
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