Organ donation: 'Have the conversation this Christmas'

Organ donation: 'Have the conversation this Christmas'

Heart and double lung recipient Isabel Terry (right) with her mother Deirdre. Deirdre Terry is facing her second Christmas without her daughter, who died in October last year.

The mother of the transplants advocate, Isabel Terry, has urged families to talk about organ donation with their loved ones this Christmas.

Deirdre Terry is facing her second Christmas without her daughter, who died in October last year. But she said the two lungs and heart donated to Isobel in 2017 gave her six Christmases with her friends and family that she would never have had were it not for organ donation.

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