Alexis Bonadies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMany Friends and Family are saying goodbye this week to a teen who died shortly after collapsing during a workout, but left behind an everlasting gift.<\/p>\n
Family and friends gathered Saturday at Health Park Medical Center\u00a0to remember Alexis Bonadies, who was a sophomore at Riverdale High School.<\/p>\n
When Alexis, 15, got her learner’s permit, she made sure to become an organ donor. It was a decision her parents didn’t understand at the time, but now that Alexis is gone, it all makes sense.<\/p>\n
Alexis collapsed after a workout at home. She went into cardiac arrest, then an induced coma, before she died Friday.<\/p>\n
Her father Louis described his last words to his daughter. “‘Alexis, I’ll meet you at the hospital, I love you.’ Those were the last words I said to her.”<\/p>\n
Kim her mother described finding out about Alexis’ decision to be an organ donor.<\/p>\n
“You don’t think of it at the time. At the time as her mom I’m thinking no, you’re crazy don’t do that, what’s wrong with you?”<\/p>\n
But now it makes sense, they said.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Health Park raised a flag to honor Alexis’ decision to donate, a choice her parents said proves what type of person their daughter was.<\/p>\n
“It was completely her decision, you know, sitting while she was laying there. If there is anything that could’ve been done for her, I would’ve wished that some other teenager would’ve been as thoughtful and kind,” Kim said.<\/p>\n
Those considering becoming an organ donor can\u00a0make that decision online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Friends and Family are saying goodbye this week to a teen who died shortly after collapsing during a workout, but left behind an everlasting gift. Family and friends gathered… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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