Yesterday, I wrote about little Kaylee Wallace, a dying 2-month old infant in Ontario, Canada (A transplant planned, a transplant not done ). It’s a heart breaking story of parents who were told that their baby would die and their decision to give the chance of life to another deathly ill infant, Lily O’Connor, whose family is from many miles to the east, in the province of Prince Edward Island.
The Wallaces were told that if Kaylee was taken off the respirator, when she fell asleep, she would die. So, they decided that this was what had to be done. …read more

Times have changed in how patients who are potential donors are considered to be dead and therefore able to be organ donors.
It used to be that you had to be brain dead, with no signs of brain activity, cardiac – heart – death wasn’t in the equation. This has changed an now those who are heart dead can be organ donors but the teams have to move fast for the organs to be viable.
I came across this story this morning of two families, two infants, and two sad stories. In a nutshell, one baby can’t live. She goes into cardiac …read more