You think they’re on this list and they will hangout on this list until they get this organ,” said Tanner. “Whenever you know that people need organs, you don’t know how fast they need them. “If she knew that her little body was sick, the very first thing that she would say is, 'How can I make somebody else better?'” said Shane.įor the next several days and nights, their focus zeroed in on finding recipients for Raven’s organs. This is what her father says she would have wanted. Tanner and Shane, who are divorced and both remarried, were surrounded by family and friends as they made the decision to let Raven live on by giving the gift of life to others. If someone can use Raven, if she can help in any way, that was the end,” said Tanner. “It was never a reservation or a second thought. Soon, Tanner and Shane were faced with a question no parent should ever hear – “Have you considered organ donation?” “I felt God with me every single second that I was in that building.” “It was just, with the heartache, and just the literal heart break that I was going through,” said Shane. Nobody gave me false hope,” Tanner explained. Every answer was the same and everybody knew the outcome. “For every question that we asked, we asked multiple times because we didn’t always hear it the first time, or the second time or even the third. “I think their (parents) process of coping starts from that very moment.”įor Tanner and Shane, the painful reality was setting in.
I knew that from past experiences with situations like this, that honesty is very much appreciated,” Dani explained. She says seeing families on the worst day of their life is never easy and she relates to them because she has children too. Our brain doesn’t allow us to truly imagine grief that strong.”Įven with 22 years of experience at Cook Children’s, talking about this brought tears to Dani’s eyes. “And we always say, ‘I can only imagine’ but you really can’t. “You want to make sure you are prepared for what you are going to see,” Dani said while standing in an empty room in the PICU. She looked over Raven’s chart while the day shift staff finished up in Raven’s room. That night, Dani Ransonette, RN, arrived for her shift as a bedside nurse in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
She suffered a catastrophic injury and her brain was no longer functioning (Cook Children’s has agreed to honor the request of Raven’s family to withhold the details of her injury). When she arrived at Cook Children’s Medical Center, doctors immediately went to work, but nothing could be done to save the small, blonde-haired girl with big blue eyes. Raven’s life took a tragic turn on Saturday, Jan. “She is the most generous, caring, loving and compassionate human being that I have ever met in my entire life,” said Shane Goff, Raven’s father. Little did anyone know at the time that it was also a beautiful foreshadowing of the legacy she’d leave behind. “I would ask her where her coat was, and she’d say ‘well you know Katie, or whoever, needed a coat because she was cold.’ I’d ask her if we could get it back tomorrow and she’d say ‘No, I gave it to her. “I don’t know how many coats I had to buy for her because she would take it to school and give it away,” said Tanner Trujillo, Raven’s mom. Sometimes, that generosity meant several trips to Target to replace the items she had given away, like her winter coat. If she didn’t know your name, she’d simply call you ‘friend.’ Her family recalls her generosity, always more worried about others than herself. Six-year-old Raven Goff never met a stranger.
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