GoFundMe | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com ...conecting the community Sat, 03 Aug 2019 23:05:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 http://www.insideojodu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.ico GoFundMe | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com 32 32 9yo Girl dies after accident, organs are donated to 5 people https://www.insideojodu.com/9yo-girl-dies-after-accident-organs-are-donated-to-5-people/ https://www.insideojodu.com/9yo-girl-dies-after-accident-organs-are-donated-to-5-people/#respond Sat, 03 Aug 2019 23:05:26 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=6382 From Idaho, a 9-year-old girl lost her life on Thursday night, just three days…

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From Idaho, a 9-year-old girl lost her life on Thursday night, just three days after her head was impaled by a piece of reinforcement bar in a freak accident.

Shaylyn Bergeson lost her life at approximately 8:45 p.m. at the Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City after undergoing a craniotomy, her mother, Jesi Bergeson, said in a Facebook post.

Bergeson said that her daughter passed “comfortably and quickly,” which allowed doctors to perform a circulatory death organ transplant.

“Our baby was able to save four lives and someone’s vision. The transplant team was able to retrieve her liver, kidneys, heart valves and corneas.”

She continued: “We again are overwhelmed with how blessed we truly are and although we are completely devastated, we are also so proud and overjoyed for those five individuals who are getting a phone call with the answer to a prayer they have been desperately asking for is now possible.”

Shaylyn was playing in the backyard of her north Rexburg home Monday when she accidentally fell out of a tree and landed on a rebar that punctured the left side of her brain, according to a GoFundMe campaign set up on the family’s behalf.

She was firstly taken to the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center but was then airlifted to the Primary Children’s Hospital where doctors performed a craniotomy and removed half of her skull to relieve the immense amount of pressure in her brain.

Bergeson said in a separate post that she recently had a conversation with her daughter about organ donors where she said she would be one if the time ever came.

“She without a blink of an eye said she wanted to donate everything she could. Our angel has just always been the sweetest, kindest, and most selfless lil girl her entire life. Unfortunately, God placed the desire for us to have that organ conversation on my heart for a reason.”

Shaylyn’s older sister, Briauna, died in 2016. Briauna had a rare chromosomal abnormality and spent the last three years of her life in hospice care.

“Sitting here this morning I am unable to sleep and the thoughts keep creeping into my head,” Kurt Bergeson posted on the family’s GoFundMe page, on Wednesday. “Why did this happen? What could I have done to stop this?”’

His post also thanked the family’s friends and relatives for helping them to grow their network of supporters.

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Kentucky father dies in hospital next to newborns, week after being gunned down out https://www.insideojodu.com/kentucky-father-dies-in-hospital-next-to-newborns-week-after-being-gunned-down-out/ https://www.insideojodu.com/kentucky-father-dies-in-hospital-next-to-newborns-week-after-being-gunned-down-out/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2019 08:04:55 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=5424 A Kentucky man who was shot just moments after visiting his newborn twins in…

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A Kentucky man who was shot just moments after visiting his newborn twins in the hospital last week, lost his life next to his children in the same hospital where they were born after he was taken off life support on Friday, according to a report.

Tyrese Garvin, aged 20, was shot down on June 23 while he was walking home from Louisville’s University Hospital, where he had just witnessed the birth of his first children, a boy and a girl who were about a week old, the Courier-Journal reported.

Garvin was then taken to the same hospital where his children were born to be treated for multiple gunshot wounds in his body and head.

He, sadly, stayed in intensive care until Friday afternoon, when he was taken off life support and pronounced dead, the Courier-Journal reported. The mother of his children had reportedly taken the twins to lay beside their father until he gave his last breaths.

A GoFundMe page set up by the family for funeral costs described Garvin as “selfless, respectful, and honest,” who “would look you in the eye with a firm handshake while calling you ma’am or sir.”

“Tyrese was taken from us way too soon, as he was a victim of the ongoing gun and gang violence surrounding the Louisville area,” the page said.

Three suspects, aged 14 to 17, have been apprehended in connection with the shooting but the charges against them were unclear. Their names have not been released due to their status as minors.

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