Three-year-old Tayzli Hale loved dancing, singing, playing with her brothers, and she loved to ride horses. Tayzli was thrown from her horse when an approaching car spooked the animal. When she fell, she hit her head and suffered a traumatic brain injury.
“I got there and saw Tayzli on the ground, and my world just stopped. It was like slow motion. You don’t ever think your own kid’s going to die,” said father, AJ Hale.
Tayzli was life-flighted to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT. Her family was at her side for 24 hours prior to doctors declaring that all brain activity had ceased. Tayzli’s friends and family were able to see her and say good-bye. But Tayzli’s mom and dad now faced their worst nightmare.
“We were ultimately just trying to make the decision: if she doesn’t come out of it, what do we do? And trying to make that decision to donate her organs, it was really hard because it’s not the way you picture saying bye to your child; there just wasn’t anything we could do. Ultimately, we decided to help as many people as we could by donating her organs,” said her mother, Whitney Hale.
