Positivity: The Stranger Who Saved Millie’s Life
Millie was spared from an early death by an organ donor almost five years ago:
We’ll forever be grateful to the stranger who saved Millie’s life
Wed 23 Aug 2006
KNEELING on the floor, carefully drawing a caterpillar on her colouring pad, Millie chatters away happily to her mum and dad.
She has just got home from her last day at nursery and cannot wait for the following morning when she finally starts school.
At just five, she is too young to fully grasp how lucky she is to be here at all. But as she gets up from her drawing to pick up a photo album filled with pictures of her as a baby, she shows some understanding of how special she is.
“Look at me there,” she says almost proudly as she points to one of several pictures where her skin is a vivid yellow and a tube is attached to her nose.
Millie was born with a rare liver disease which threatened to claim her life before her first birthday. Only a transplant could save her.
The problem was a chronic shortage of registered donors and Millie’s family knew that there was every chance they would lose their little girl forever. Amazingly when she was only days from death, a liver was found and doctors were able to carry out the life-saving operation just in time.
….. As the fifth anniversary of Millie’s transplant draws near, her parents Alison Platts and Bill Stobie are telling their story to thank the strangers who saved her life - and encourage more people to become donors.
