Across the country Alexa has become the face of those who are waiting.
Alexa Kersting of West Fargo died July 15, 2004 at the age of 14 while awaiting a double lung transplant.
Alexa’s parents originally undertook this project as a means to express their grief and to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation. It is "Alexa's Hope" that one day soon there will be an end to people dying on the waiting list, because the answer to organ donation will always be, "Yes!"
Alexa’s parents, Monica and Loren, began creating awareness by telling their personal story at the local, regional, state and national levels to both medical communities and the general public. While stories from donor families and grateful recipients were commonly shared, no one had ever shared the story about what it was like to be waiting and most of all, to have waited and lost.
Another avenue for creating awareness is through Monica's watercolor art, with future plans to expand, using inspiring art in many forms for awareness and fundraising.
Alexa’s Hope is dedicated to providing accurate, easily accessible information to those families whose loved ones have been added to the almost 100,000 people waiting for organs.
In addition to Monica and Loren’s speaking engagements and the sale of Monica’s art, Alexa’s Hope will be providing information to parents whose children are awaiting transplants.
Monica and Loren know first hand what it is like to be told that the only way your child can go on living is with a transplant. They also know that parents’ primary responsibility when hearing this news is to care for the child and follow through with medical appointments. There is little or no time for research and the information out there is overwhelming.
Alexa's Hope: Donate Life Project
Alexa Kersting died July 15th, 2004 at the age of fourteen, while awaiting a double lung transplant. Her mother, Monica, began creating art to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation and as a means to express her grief. The artwork below is available as both prints and greeting cards from fargostuff.com (click here).
Alexa Kersting died July 15th, 2004 at the age of fourteen, while awaiting a double lung transplant. Her mother, Monica, began creating art to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation and as a means to express her grief. The artwork below is available as both prints and greeting cards from fargostuff.com (click here).