POCATELLO — A local mother and her family recently connected with the man who received her son’s heart after he died in a car crash in 2021.
Just two days before Christmas the unthinkable happened when 15-year-old Jordan Christian was involved in a head-on collision with a semi-truck on Highway 30 in Idaho in December 2021.
Jordan was transported to Portneuf Medical Center and later to Primary Children’s Hospital in Utah where his parents received the news that there was little chance of his survival.
The young boy passed on Christmas day but not before he donated a total of five organs that all provided a Christmas miracle to their lucky recipients.
“We had decided that since Jordan wanted to be an organ donor, and us as parents also wanted to keep him going in life, to donate his organs,” said Jordan’s mother Amanda Christian. “He donated both of his kidneys, his heart, his pancreas and his liver. A total of five people benefitted from his donation because his liver was split in two.”