Cheryl Parker holds up a picture of organ donor daughter Rachel Davidson,8, who donated her heart, 2 lungs and 2 corneas. She died from complications of ITP, a viral infection one month after seeing the transplant front page of the Toronto Sun.
TORONTO - Cheryl Parker’s daughter Rachel died from a sudden illness 15 years ago but she turned the tragedy into a holiday gift that saved two other children’s lives through organ donation.
“Rachel was able to give the best Christmas present,” said Parker, a organ donation advocate, who stresses the holidays are an important time of year for families to discuss organ donation and the gift of life.
A month before eight-year-old Rachel died in 1998, Parker was reading an article about a Hamilton boy whose life was saved by a lung transplant.
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