Life stories rewritten with organ donation

Durham Region

It might not be often you’d find two organ donor recipients in one family, and even less likely they’d be teenagers and brother and sister. But that’s Kailyn and Ayden Bredin’s story. The Ajax teenagers both received heart transplants when they were babies, having been born with a genetic abnormality in which the left ventricles of their hearts didn’t develop.

The Bredin siblings faced a medical crisis that is, however, all-too-familiar to many families and individuals across Ontario. For those who have been given a new lease on life due to organ transplant, and for those whose names currently appear on waiting lists, the Bredin’s story will be woven with emotional threads they’ll recognize, and in the end the stories are all the same.

Organ donors can give the gift of health and a lifetime of vitality to someone whose future is otherwise bleak. Organ donations can push the “reset” button on the recipient’s chances to enjoy a normal lifespan and experience what too many of us take for granted: normal, everyday existence.
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