“It was one of the worst moments we could have experienced as parents. We’d gone to hospital thinking that we were going to get turned around and sent back home being over-anxious parents. To go from what we didn’t think was going to be an issue, to suddenly having our six-week old baby on life support, was numbing and shocking.”

These are the words of Andrew Martin, who reflects on the frightening moment he and wife Kylie faced when their precious baby daughter Ellie was placed on a ventilator in the Intensive Care Unit at a Sydney hospital.

In the third episode of Let’s Talk Organ and Tissue Donation, podcast host Michael Billings speaks to Andrew about Ellie’s diagnosis with a rare heart condition, their relocation to Melbourne for Ellie’s treatment, and her journey to receiving a heart transplant.  

More Australians are alive today because of organ and tissue donation. To register to be an organ and tissue donor, visit donatelife.gov.au – it only takes a minute.

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