A night of remembrance at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children to honor the lives of the youngest of organ donors and how their gifts live on.
Dozens of family members walk the patient drop-off circle outside the hospital Tuesday evening. It’s symbolic of what happens inside the hospital when a child dies and is being taken to the operating room for organ donation while staff line the hallway in tribute."I feel very proud. Selfless. I love my girls," said Honora Magras. She and her husband two of their daughters in a house fire 16 years ago. Felicia was three-and-a-half and died in the fire.
It’s a place for families and staff to reflect on the lives lost and saved here through organ donation. Families also receive a memory box after donation."We are doing a heartbeat which we are doing a recording of their heartbeat and it goes on here and the parents came wear it," said Lynn Miles, a PICU nurse of 39 years. She showed us a necklace that’s part of the memory box.April is National Donate Life month.
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