The Spec
Alexandria Gold is a toddler on the move.
She twirls, she jumps, she climbs and never seems to tire. She only slows to collect both her and her mom's shoes.
“Let's go outside now,” the two-year-old Hamilton girl demands as she plunks the shoes in her mother's lap.
Like most moms, Jessica Gold is proud to show off her bright, wide-eyed girl, who easily rhymes off the colours of jelly beans and counts to 16.
But unlike most moms, she's not taking the credit. She wants you to know a stranger is the reason Alexandria dances across the living room. Gold doesn't even know his name, so she calls him her hero. He saved her baby's life when his family donated his liver.
“My main goal is teaching her about her story,” said Gold. “You can't have an advocate any better for organ donation than her.”
Gold works tirelessly to promote the gift of life her daughter received. She's the co-ordinator of the Hamilton/Burlington/Oakville chapter of the advocacy group Life Donation Awareness.
“I wasn't an organ donor until she needed care,” admits Alexandria's grandma Christine Franks. “I wanted to go the way I am. I never thought about organ donation and didn't want anyone to cut me open.”
Read more: http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/736458--be-a-donor-the-advocate
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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