Today’s post continues our interview with Donation Specialist Nursing Coordinator Leanne McEvoy and Intensive Care Physician Doctor Cameron Knott, and goes through what happens once organ donation is discussed with a family. If you haven’t read Part One as yet, click here to catch up! SARAH – After talking to the family about organ donation, […]
My husband is alive and well today because of the generosity of a donor and their family. If they hadn’t agreed to organ donation, my husband may not have survived long enough for another liver to become available. And we are eternally grateful every minute of every day for our organ donor, their family’s decision […]
Having a transplant does not mean everything is fixed, and you just get on with life….it is a never ending commitment, with regular checkups, maintenance and medication. Today was my husband’s regular three month check up at the Liver Transplant Unit…I have written about this before, but thought I would give an updated insight as […]
Today is a very special day in our household…two years ago, my husband had his life saving liver transplant! A six hour operation that has turned his life around, and given him back his health…albeit highly monitored by the Liver Transplant Unit staff and controlled by various medications! Even though all those weeks, then months, […]
This morning my husband and I got up early, collected our morning Chai teas, and headed into the Austin Hospital. Not for any medical reason…this visit was different…we were working as volunteers at the information table for the Donatelife Week 2104. My husband had done this last year, but I missed out due to work […]
Waiting for a transplant can be the most worrying, scary, nervous, horrible time….even just getting on the list is not easy…you need to be sick enough to need a transplant, but well enough to survive the actual operation! So when the call finally comes through, its hard not to be more than a little excited…and […]
Today, it was back to reality with a visit to the Austin Hospital for Jas’s regular transplant checkup. Over the many years we have been going into the unit…first as pre-transplant, now thankfully post transplant…we have developed a routine, and learnt a few tricks to survive clinic and be out before lunch! First trick…we get […]
Now the year is coming to an end, my thoughts turn to how much we have to be grateful for….and there is one thing that comes to the top of my list. See the man running in this photo….let me introduce him..please meet my husband, Jas! Now you are probably wondering why this photo would […]