Family's loss helping others through organ donation
By Stephen McLamb | WAFF
MARSHALL COUNTY, AL (WAFF)- A bitter sweet moment for a Marshall County family who will celebrate their little girl's first birthday this weekend.
They'll shed some tears because the girl's father died from injuries suffered in a car wreck around the same time she was born.
"She reminds me of him every single day," said Beverly Fincher about her daughter Emily.
Fincher plays with Emily every day, but Emily will never get the chance to play with her dad, Cody Thompson.
That's because on July 18, 2009, her dad and pregnant mother were in a car wreck in Arab.
"I think I might have gotten knocked out because when I kind of realized what was going on my dad was asking me are you ok?" said Fincher.
Both were taken to the hospital, but Cody suffered life threatening injuries.
Emily was delivered by C-section. Two days later, all hope for her dad Cody was gone.
"I remember I was standing there over his bed and she told me he wasn't going to make it. That was pretty hard wasn't it? that was devastating," said Fincher.
Emily got to see her dad one time.
"They wheeled Emily on in there and he got to hold her," said Emily's grandmother, Sharon Fincher.
Two days after Emily's birth, Cody passed away.
"There has to be something good that comes out of such a tragedy," said Sharon.
And there was because Cody was an organ donor.
The family later began hearing about families who benefited from his organs.
"We got a letter from a 13-year-old little boy that got his kidney and is alive," said Sharon Fincher.
So the loved ones Cody left behind are celebrating his daughter's first birthday and those lives he helped keep behind through organ donation.
"I can just say it the way Cody explained it to me. What if that was your daughter and someone was too selfish to save her," said Beverly Fincher.
Beverly said she is now an organ donor, and her family is encouraging others to take the time to become an organ donor.
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