Article: Vic: Cyclist's organ donor message inspired by mum


AAP General News (Australia)
02-25-2007
Vic: Cyclist's organ donor message inspired by mum

By Catherine Best

MELBOURNE, Feb 25 AAP - Josh Moorman has one person to thank for saving his mother's
life with an urgently needed donor liver.

But the 17-year-old discovered there were millions of reasons to tell the nation about it.

Josh today completed a gruelling 1,830km bike ride from Brisbane to Melbourne to raise
awareness about organ donation.

The energetic teenager watched his mother Sandra come back from the brink of death
thanks to an organ donor and is encouraging others to make the gift of life.

"Mum received a liver transplant in 2004, but it has again become sick and (she) is

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