Mother of teen who died suddenly after a football injury meets with transplant recipients
Cassondra Singleton's 15-year-old son Aaron died a day after he was hurt.
— -- It was an incredibly emotional day recently for Cassondra Singleton, who met with some of the recipients of organs from her teen son who died last year after a football injury.
In November 2016, Aaron Singleton, 15, a straight-A student at Joshua High School in Texas, suffered seizures after taking a hit during a game. He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors reportedly discovered he had a blood clot and swelling in his brain.
The next day, he was taken off life support after doctors determined he was still unresponsive. Aaron Singleton's organs were donated.
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On Tuesday, Cassondra Singleton of Burleson, Texas, was joined by her family and fiancé, Robert Gray, as she met with Brenda Florez, 61, of Carlsbad, New Mexico; Dustin Earley, 32, of Denison, Texas; and Mike Norton, 62, of Houston, Texas, and their close relatives at Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
Florez received a kidney and liver; Earley, a kidney and pancreas; and Norton, a heart.
"It's a sad experience but it's also a happy experience. It's something that from the very beginning I always wanted to take place," Florez said. "I always wanted to meet the family. When they contacted me and said that they were ready to meet the recipient families, I said, 'Yes.'"
On Tuesday, Singleton said that Aaron would be happy to see how he'd given life to so many others.
"It's really emotional. It's happy because [Brenda] gets to carry on, you know, with her life and with her kids and husband and family and friends and everything."
She went on, "You know, it's a little sad. It's very sad. Because I don't have my son but her and others, Brenda and others get to live life to the fullest and that means a lot to me and my family."
Norton brought a stethoscope so that Singleton and her family could listen to the new heart beating inside his chest.
Born with a heart defect in which the heart loses elasticity, Norton said he'd ended up on the transplant list after he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure.
"Everything I do for the rest of my life, Aaron is taking me there," said Norton, a landscape photographer. "I feel him every day."
ABC News' Kelley Robinson and Avianne Tan and ABC affiliate WFAA-TV contributed to this story.
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