Four-year-old attached to mechanical heart finds donor, 16 years after her family donated her sister's heart
The selflessness of a grieving family was repaid 16 years after they donated their dead baby daughter's heart when their second daughter who was in desperate need for a heart received a life-saving organ donation just in time to save her life.
In an exclusive conversation with the Mirror, 36-year-old mother Lisa Mallett spoke about the bittersweet moment when she was thankful for her daughter's well being but also heartbroken for the donor's family.
In 2002, after having a fit in the bath, Lisa's one-year-old daughter Jadene suffered severe brain damage and died just a day before her first birthday.
At the time, Lisa and Kevin, her partner, selflessly donated little Jadene's heart valves to a desperate patient. They said the act brought the family "comfort and solace".
An amazing story on Paul O'Grady's Little Heroes tonight - a family who have seen both sides of Organ Donation and the difference it can make ❤️️ https://t.co/jPfPKqrDmI pic.twitter.com/VhBZVLZm93
— Irish Kidney Assoc. (@IrishKidneyAs) August 29, 2018