Courtney became ill after swimming in a small tributary of the St. Johns River in southern Volusia County, and died from what health officials said was a brain infection caused by an amoeba in the water. Courtney died about 4:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta confirmed the cause of death today. She was a junior at Astronaut High School.
Despite the loss of her daughter, PJ Nash-Ryder, said there is some good coming from Courtney's death. "I got a call last night. They took her into surgery at 4 o'clock and by 8:30 both lungs were already transplanted," Nash-Ryder said. "The liver, the pancreas, this morning. This morning they're performing another miracle for someone else. They're putting kidneys in and they're doing more later today." Just a week before Courtney died, her mom said the teenager signed up to be an organ donor when she got her driver's license, and said she knows her daughter is now "up in heaven with God." "Courtney I am so proud of you. You're my angel. You're one of a kind and I love you," her mother said.
Despite the loss of her daughter, PJ Nash-Ryder, said there is some good coming from Courtney's death. "I got a call last night. They took her into surgery at 4 o'clock and by 8:30 both lungs were already transplanted," Nash-Ryder said. "The liver, the pancreas, this morning. This morning they're performing another miracle for someone else. They're putting kidneys in and they're doing more later today." Just a week before Courtney died, her mom said the teenager signed up to be an organ donor when she got her driver's license, and said she knows her daughter is now "up in heaven with God." "Courtney I am so proud of you. You're my angel. You're one of a kind and I love you," her mother said.
Courtney became ill after swimming in a small tributary of the St. Johns River in southern Volusia County, and died from what health officials said was a brain infection caused by an amoeba in the water. Courtney died about 4:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta confirmed the cause of death today. She was a junior at Astronaut High School.
Despite the loss of her daughter, PJ Nash-Ryder, said there is some good coming from Courtney's death. "I got a call last night. They took her into surgery at 4 o'clock and by 8:30 both lungs were already transplanted," Nash-Ryder said. "The liver, the pancreas, this morning. This morning they're performing another miracle for someone else. They're putting kidneys in and they're doing more later today." Just a week before Courtney died, her mom said the teenager signed up to be an organ donor when she got her driver's license, and said she knows her daughter is now "up in heaven with God." "Courtney I am so proud of you. You're my angel. You're one of a kind and I love you," her mother said.
Despite the loss of her daughter, PJ Nash-Ryder, said there is some good coming from Courtney's death. "I got a call last night. They took her into surgery at 4 o'clock and by 8:30 both lungs were already transplanted," Nash-Ryder said. "The liver, the pancreas, this morning. This morning they're performing another miracle for someone else. They're putting kidneys in and they're doing more later today." Just a week before Courtney died, her mom said the teenager signed up to be an organ donor when she got her driver's license, and said she knows her daughter is now "up in heaven with God." "Courtney I am so proud of you. You're my angel. You're one of a kind and I love you," her mother said.
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