When the baby was brought to the operating room on wheels, her mother, Megan Sobolek, kissed her before she was overheard saying, “You have to save three people. I love you forever.”
Little Coraline can be seen wearing a bonnet which is knitted like several threads attached to her little body.
Doctors and nurses at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester also lined up to pay their last respects to the little boy as Amazing Grace sang.
Coraline, who was from New Hampton, Iowa, was hospitalized with the flu – a group of viruses that cause respiratory infections, especially in infants and children.
During the five-day battle with the virus, Coralynn suffered from three cardiac arrests.
Medical staff had to perform CPR on her for 25 minutes before declaring her brain dead.
However, Coralynn’s death would not be in vain.
Three people will be saved by Coralynn as she donated her kidneys, heart and liver after her life support was turned off on April 22.
Her heart went to a one-year-old boy while her liver went to a one-year-old girl. Meanwhile, her kidneys went to a 41-year-old woman.
Following Coralynn’s death, Meagan wanted to encourage more people to think about organ donation.
“Whether it’s your mother, brother or little one, you have a choice to let their legacy live on,” Meagan said.
“Coralynn now has a legacy that can live on through these three different people.”
She also expressed her gratitude to the hospital staff who honored her little girl as she was wheeled into surgery to save three other lives.
“I don’t know if there is a word for more than phenomenal but the hospital staffs were just that. They treated us as though they were our family.”
