Deceased teenager saves the lives of her father and four other people in Florida

A story in the state of Florida has touched many hearts: Shawn Glenn owes his life to his 13-year-old daughter, since now one of the kidneys that belonged to her was transplanted, while four other people are also alive thanks to the organs of the deceased teenager.

Symaria Glenn He died last February of a brain hemorrhage, and his parents decided donate your organs to keep his memory alive, the television station reported WSAZ.

The young woman's life changed on January 31 when she was taken to the hospital with a severe headache.

"Not knowing how serious it was, her brain was bleeding. They took her to a local hospital and then airlifted her to Joe DiMaggio," recalled Dhima Martin, the teen's mother.

She was hospitalized a week before she died, and at that moment the family made the decision to save other people.

Doctors and other hospital staff formed a fence in the hallways to pay their respects while the teenager's body was taken to the operating room for the recovery of her organs.

One of the five people saved was his father, who never told his children that he was on dialysis and urgently needed a kidney transplant.

"She would have wanted it. She would have wanted to save her father," Martin said.

The organization DonateLife America, dedicated to promoting the donation of organs, tissues and cells, estimates that in the United States about 100,000 people depend on this gesture and 86% of them need a kidney, according to The New Herald.

Each eight minutes Another person is added to the national waiting list for transplants. In addition, 5,600 people died in this country in 2022 while waiting for an organ, the source indicated.

Stories of organ donation and transplantation, anywhere in the world, are inspiring to people.

One of these is Amanda Lemus Ortiz, the little Cuban girl who, after undergoing surgery to receive a liver transplant, is recovering very well in Spain, a country that welcomed her after the Cuban government was not interested in her case.

Precisely, Amanda, after several complicated days after her operation, He managed to leave the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) this Monday from the La Paz Hospital in Madrid and was transferred to a recovery room.