SOPHIE Chilcott will be granted her greatest wish, to meet SpongeBob SquarePants, on the first anniversary of her life-saving liver transplant.
Sophie, who is nearly four, will probably never know the identity of the young man whose donated organs saved her life last July.
On the other side of the coin is Kathryn Sheridan, whose organ-donor husband, Neil Adams, died suddenly on March 23. He was aged just 51.
Mrs Sheridan will never know who the recipients of her husband's organs are either. But when she met little Sophie for the first time yesterday, she was able to see just how much difference such a gift could make.
Dr Adams, a respected scientist with the Bureau of Meteorology in Tasmania, died in a matter of hours after rare complications to an ear infection, leaving behind his wife and their four children.
"For Neil's funeral we said that in lieu of flowers we would prefer they donated to the Make-a-Wish Foundation," Mrs Sheridan said.
That idea raised more than $1200 from family, friends and colleagues and when it came time to hand over the money, Mrs Sheridan decided she wanted it to be something personal.
"I wanted our young children to understand where the money was going and what it was for," she said.
It was at this stage that Make-a-Wish Hobart wish-granting co-ordinator Allana Brown told Mrs Sheridan that she knew the perfect recipient.
Read more: http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/05/20/329771_tasmania-news.html
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