ITN Vol 13; Issue 42, 2014

A Recipient Family speaks

A touching account by Hvovi Minocherhomji's mother Armaity. Hvovi not only leads a full life today after her heart transplant but also trained to qualify as a transplant coordinator.

“… The morning after the transplant, the effects of the anaesthesia wore off, and even though she was in intense pain, my daughter shed tears of happiness at the prospect of freedom from the life of pain and illness she had been leading. She hadn't cried asmuch in the years of ill health and suffering as she did on the day after the transplant. Her tears just wouldn't stop. These were tears of hope, and relief, that the unrelenting nightmare of the last two years had ended…Her happiness, and ours, wouldn't have been possible without the supreme act of selflessness performed by the mother of the deceased donor, a 23 year old boy killed in a road accident on the night of 15th June 2014 in Chennai. In her deepest hour of grief, this brave lady gave the gift of life to desperately ill people by deciding to donate her brain-dead son's liver, kidneys, eyes and heart…”