DeShawn McMillan still breaks down when she talks about her mother Sheila Reddick who passed away in 2005. She was near the top of the list waiting for a liver transplant.

"I watched my mother die, I was standing there when she took her last breath," McMillan told ABC 7's Alison Starling.

"Her last words to me were just, 'I don't want to die and leave you all'. She was talking about me and my siblings."

Shortly after, McMillan made it her life's mission to raise awareness about organ donation. She created a non-profit in honor of her mother, called "Sheila's Saving a Life Campaign". McMillan says it only takes minutes to sign up online or at the DMV but many people are unaware that just one donor can help up to 50 people. Since the start of the Sheila Campaign, nearly 150 people have signed on in the D.C. Area to be organ donors.

Sheila's Saving  a Life Campaign

"If it were your mother or your child just put yourself in those shoes, and that will kinda shed some light and encourage people to say you know, I think I'll go and I'll sign up and I'll be an organ donor."

In addition to her full-time job with the government printing office, McMillan is also attending college at night studying criminal justice an she is the mother of two.

 

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