Mums team up to tell Parliament of their agony
TWO campaigning mums united by the Mirror organ donation campaign come together in Parliament tonight to tell MPs of their experiences.
Gran Pat Carroll lost her daughter Natalie when she failed to find a kidney and pancreas donor after damage from Type 1 diabetes.
Pat, 66, of Thurrock, Essex, offered to be a live donor in 2010 and could give a kidney but not a pancreas. Nat told her mum she wanted to donate her own organs shortly before she died at 38 on New Year’s Day, 2014.
Her heart valves helped save a life and her liver was used for medical research. Pat donated her kidney to save the life of Joe Carmona, 22, Nat’s fellow patient, 15 months ago.
Mirror boy Max Johnson’s mum Emma will join Pat to tell MPs how the selfless family of Keira Ball saved her son’s life after a seven-month wait. Both women are desperate to prevent other families going through the agony of watching their child on the organ donor waiting list.
Emma, of Winsford, Cheshire, wrote in February last year: “I could see the weight loss on Max’s ribs and face. He looked hollow-eyed and the nurse told me his weight had dropped to three stone.”