Charla Moye holds her daughter’s hand one last time before Liane, 31, is taken to an operating room to have her organs recovered to save the lives of others. After finding her daughter unconscious, it didn’t take long for Charla, a cardiac nurse, to think about organ donation. MELISSA LYTTLE | Times
When Charla Moye finally found her daughter sprawled on a friend's bed, naked and blue, she knew Liane was dying.
"Call 911!" Charla screamed to her daughter's friends, who were just standing there. "Someone, call 911!"
Charla planted both hands on her daughter's chest and started pumping. When that didn't work, she leaned down and covered her daughter's mouth with her own. She could taste the bile, what was left of the vomit.
Charla, a 58-year-old cardiac nurse, had spent decades caring for strangers, from South Tampa to South America. But on that Saturday afternoon in April, the week before Easter 2011, she couldn't save her only child.
She followed the ambulance to the hospital. Through tears, Charla asked the emergency room doctor to do something other parents might not have thought of during such a crisis:
"At least save her organs.
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To register as a donor in California:
www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org | www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org
Outside California:
www.organdonor.gov | www.donatelife.
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