The organ donor emblem can be seen in Cristine Hadley's I.D. as her mother, Monica Chambliss, holds it next to a donate life pin, which she wears on her t-shirt Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. Hadley was killed in 2010 and her organs saved 6 people's lives. Her mother Monica is advocating for organ donors in Alabama. (Press-Register, Bill Starling)
BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- Two years before she died, 19-year-old Cristina Hadley became an organ donor. According to her mom, it was the natural extension of her giving nature.
“She would’ve given a kidney if somebody had needed it,” Monica Chambless said.
Turns out, she gave them both.
Hadley, who spent several years in Bay Minette as a child, died right before Christmas in 2010; hit by a car and thrown 85 feet as she and her younger brother, Matthew, walked along a road south of Baton Rouge, La.
Chambless was in Baldwin County when she got the call about the accident, and after the long drive to see her daughter — who was brain dead, but on life support — she said she stood in the doorway of her hospital room and immediately knew her “first baby” was gone.
And yet, almost two years later, Cristina’s spirit is very much alive, Chambless said, thanks to organ donorship.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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