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The condition of the 3-year-old daughter of BYU running backs coach Reno Mahe worsened on Sunday and family members began making plans to donate her vital organs to needy recipients.

"Elsie's condition continues to slowly slip," according to an update posted by her mother, Sunny Mahe, on a GoFundMe account set up to help the family pay for medical costs. "And yet we feel peace."

Elsie Mahe suffered an in-home accident involving the cord of a window blind last Tuesday that caused severe respiratory distress, and an MRI performed on Friday revealed extensive brain damage. She remains at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City.

"We met this morning with a representative from the hospital organ donation team and feel confident that this is the Lord's will for Elsie — to be a life-saving miracle for others," Sunny Mahe wrote. "It is not the miracle that we wanted, but it is the one that we got. It is still a miracle."

Elsie is resting comfortably and not in pain. The family said they do not have a timeline for the transition of Elsie's organs to recipients.

"We will stay by her side and continue to love her forever. … But her brain in only functioning enough to give her body oxygen and perform very basic functions, and those have begun to decline as well," Sunny Mahe said.

Reno Mahe, a former BYU receiver who played for five years in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles, returned to the sidelines on Saturday and helped coach the Cougars to a 28-10 win over Utah State.

Many fans wore pink, Elsie's favorite color, to show support for the family.

To donate to the cause or read more about Elsie's condition, go to the GoFundMe account at http://www.gofundme.com/help-the-mahe-family.