A Queensland teen's life has been saved by a last-minute organ donation after being given simply 24 hours to reside.
Now an adolescent, Sean was identified with an unknown terminal lung illness at simply seven years previous.
For the following two years, he was in a wheelchair, fed by a tube and on oxygen earlier than his lungs started to fail.
At one stage, the younger boy was placed on life assist and given only a day to reside.
"I used to be really planning his funeral," mum Lee-Ann Rice mentioned of the heartbreaking incident.
With simply hours till Sean's life assist was because of be turned off, his dad and mom obtained a life-changing name.
A brand new set of donor lungs turned accessible on the final second, and Sean was transported to Melbourne for a transplant.
"I assumed we would run out of time and on the final minute we bought the telephone name," Rice mentioned.
"It was a whirlwind, he bought airlifted to Melbourne to obtain his new lungs and he isn't a typical teenage boy."
Over 1750 Australians are at present on the ready checklist for an organ transplant.
Amanda Leitch from Donate Life mentioned anybody can register to be a donor.
"That is helped somebody that is been on the ready checklist and assist change their life and saved their life," Leitch mentioned.
"It contains coronary heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and at instances pancreas and gut transplants."
Nationally, 36 per cent of persons are registered for organ donation.
In Queensland, 30 per cent of residents are registered.
The sign-up course of takes minutes and will save somebody's life within the occasion of an unlikely accident or dying.
Leitch mentioned Donate Life week is a chance to remind Australians of the doubtless life-saving influence of organ donation.
"It is not one thing everybody thinks about on daily basis, and it empowers households to know your needs if you're at finish of life."