Ten-year-old heart transplant recipient urges people to sign up for organ donation - CANADA

The Peterborough Examiner | Galen Eagle


Be A Donor campaign aims to sign up 300,000 new donors in Ontario

I asked 10-year-old heart transplant recipient Sarah Edge why she thought it was important for people to register for organ donation.

She scrunched up her nose and shrugged her shoulders. She’s not shy, but my first question was too direct. I shifted the topic to something lighter — her love of horses. Sarah opened right up.

“I love to ride horses, it’s fun and horses are not really like hamsters, they are not easy to forget. I forget my hamsters all the time,” she said.
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