TORONTO - She can't speak yet, nor can she eat, but that hasn't stopped her from continuing her crusade.
Helene Campbell — who became the unofficial face of organ donation in Canada after attracting celebrity endorsements for her cause — is still recovering after a double-lung transplant but is progressing well, doctors said Tuesday.
While she hasn't been able to talk because of the breathing tubes attached to her throat, her mother said if Campbell could speak, she'd spread the same message she always has.
"BeADonor.ca is what she would say," Manon Campbell told The Canadian Press, referring to the website that encourages people to become registered organ and tissue donors.
"What she hopes in all of this is that it will bring people to action."
Helene Campbell was diagnosed with advanced idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis last October and underwent surgery at Toronto General Hospital earlier this month.
Doctors say the 21-year-old Ottawa woman's transplant experience has been much like any other. The possibility that the donated organs may not have been available in the first place was always very real. Then there was the risk of organ rejection and the threat of infection.
What was different, however, was how Campbell and her family used her condition as a rallying point to encourage organ donation.
Read more: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/doctors-say-ottawa-woman-doing-well-after-double-lung-transplant-in-toronto-148711275.html
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