Girl saves 4 lives
Leukaemia battler’s dying gift to others
doctor very tactfully asked if we would donate and I immediately said yes. Amelia had leukaemia and we lived and breathed that for so long.
The question of organ donation was never a question for me. We spent years around children who needed bone marrow transplants while Amelia only had chemotherapy.” The youngster, of Grimoldby, Lincs, had been walking to a bus stop to go to Louth Academy in March when the front wheel of the 4x4 broke off and struck her.
The driver was said to be ‘devastated’ and had bought the Discovery a month earlier. Amelia was airlifted to hospital earlier this year but could not be saved. Now the family is mourning the loss of their “happy, funny, lively, beautiful” girl.
Hayley – who has sons Oscar, eight, and Dexter, three – said: “About two weeks ago we received a letter saying Amelia’s organs had saved the lives of three young boys and woman in her 20s.
“It’s an amazing feeling but we are still getting our heads around the fact that Amelia is not here.
“We still see the bus go past that she would have got off and expect her to come through the door.
“She was very generous. If she had £2 in her pocket she would spend it on sweets for her little brothers and her. It’s fantastic she has given other people the opportunity of survival. But it’s very difficult to let go.” GOOD Samaritan Shane Sharkey and his kind-hearted community transformed the life of a homeless man in a shop doorway.
Shane, 34, spotted Michael Peaks, gave him a cuppa and a biscuit and learned he had been struggling after being released from jail for petty thefts and drug abuse. When Michael’s plight was shared on a neighbourhood watch Facebook page for Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, garage owner Graham Limbrick offered him a job as a valet, and a woman offered him a room. “People gave me a second chance,” said Michael, 45. “I’m bowled over by their compassion.” Shane added: “I saw Michael and felt bad I was having a good time while he shivered in a shop doorway. He said he wanted to turn his life around. I was struck by how humble he was.”