A 10-YEAR-OLD girl has made a heartfelt plea for people to sign up to the organ donor register in a bid to help her gran, who needs a lung transplant.
Carol Thomas, 52, of Rivergreen Clifton, has to spend 18 hours a day on oxygen and survives with a lung capacity of just 20 per cent, due to a genetic condition.
Her family, including 10-year-old granddaughter Bayleigh Thomas, is today urging people to sign up to the organ register, which could save their grandmother's life – and others like her.
Mrs Thomas is one of four people waiting for a lung transplant in Notts at the moment.
The same number of people have died in the last five years while waiting for one.
In a heart-warming letter, printed in the Post today, Balyeigh says that new lungs for her "mama" would also mean a new life for her.
She wrote: "Day to day our life is a struggle at the moment, because my mama is not as fit and active as she used to be."
Speaking to the Post, Mrs Thomas says all she wants to do is be able to work again and play with her grand children.
"I can't even pick up my youngest grand-daughter and I can't carry her around," she added.
