A mother's urgent appeal for organ donations as her three-year-old son battles a life-threatening condition. Zachary Bradford needs a double organ transplant to survive.
A mum has urged people to consider organ donation as a New Year’s resolution as her tot fights for his life on a transplant list. Jade Bradford, 23, is clinging onto hope that 2025 will be the year her three-year-old son Zachary Bradford, receives the double organ donor that will put an end to his hell. The brave boy, from Kirkintilloch, has defied the odds after doctors told him he just had weeks left in September, 2024. He desperately needs a small bowel and liver transplant.
The Record previously told how Zachary would require the donor to come from a small child. However specialists in Birmingham, where Zachary will have the op, have since vowed to accept larger organs – which has opened up the possibility that a match will be found Now Jade has sent an SOS to people to register to become a donor in time for the Bells. The mum-of-two told the Record: “A lot of people will make plans for the New Year, but our only priority is keeping our son alive. “When folk decide to go take up a new gym membership, or start a new diet or cut out alcohol, Zachary will be fighting in hospital and desperate for that call to come in. “I want people to consider organ donation when they are thinking about big changes they could make. “Doctors have been able to cast the net a bit wider for Zachary now. Before they could only accept a 10kg donor – but they’ve said they will take 50kg. That could potentially mean a small adult. “The specialist team in Birmingham have told us they have never tried to use larger organs for a child before. “But they know Zachary doesn’t have time on his side.” Jade has told how she thought Zachary wouldn’t make Christmas after his health completely collapsed after she married partner Rhys, 29, at a ceremony in Glasgow on October 10. The tot suffered major bleeds when vessels in his oesophagus burst. He was then flown down to Birmingham in a special private jet for an emergency procedur
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