'Zeynah would’ve been 10 that May of 2023 so it just felt really divine that my daughter’s almost 10-year-old heart was going to a 10-year-old girl,' said Maryam De Groef.
RELATED: April is National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Month, and Sunday Apirl 7 is the fifth anniversary of Green Shirt Day,Krista Winnig and Joanne Curtis join Jennifer Palma on Global News Morning Weekend BC to discuss organ donation . – Apr 7, 2024Their nine-year-old daughter, Zeynah, died suddenly last spring after going into cardiac arrest following an unexpected allergic reaction.
De Groef said Zeynah was kind, compassionate, wild and energetic. She shared anecdotes of her daughter finding a struggling bee and bringing it sugar water until it was well enough to fly off and of a bird hitting their dining room window at their home in London and Zeynah telling her mother that they needed to put something up so that birds would know not to fly into it.Even though the little girl suffered cardiac arrest, Dr.
They then learned that the heart was not compatible with that patient. De Groef was worried because it was time-sensitive to find a donor match and there was added difficulty because Zeynah had a rare blood type.“Zeynah would’ve been ten that May of 2023 so it just felt really divine that my daughter’s almost 10-year-old heart was going to a 10-year-old girl,” she said, emotion heavy in her voice.“All I could think of was that she gets to be ten in this weird way.
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