Today, we were honoured to be invited to speak to a group of theatre nurses who are going to be or have been part of a retrieval team for donor organs. These nurses don’t get to see the whole organ donation story even though they are part of a very important process, so the seminar […]
This morning we got up and out of the house way too early for a Sunday but it was all for a good reason…we were heading into the city to take part in the City2Sea! We paired up with another couple…the guys, both who had PSC and subsequent liver transplants, ran the 5kms…us girls were […]
Continuing this week’s theme of organ donation, I asked my husband to write about what it was like being a transplant recipient…he often gets asked if it feels weird or strange…this is his answer. Warning…there is a picture of his old liver ahead… I don’t have any trouble with the concept of having someone else’s […]
As regular readers will know, my husband had a liver transplant just over three years ago due to having an autoimmune disease that affected his liver (PSC). He was on the waiting list for 14 months, and was only weeks away from dying when the call came…a liver had been found. This call caused a […]
On this day three years ago, my husband and I had the most stressful, emotional, so happy yet so sad kind of day. It was on this day, that we got the call to say that there was a suitable donor liver available, and to come into the hospital. It was on this day that […]
Each year, DonateLife holds remembrance services across Australia, and yesterday was the Melbourne service. It is a special event that has become very important to us…this is the third one we have attended. The remembrance service is one of the few times that people from all steps of the organ donation process gather together in […]
We woke this morning to read that our Federal Government has ordered an independent review of Australia’s organ donation system. They say that the $250 million investment has not led to the intended rise in transplant numbers. This has all sprung to life because the recent monthly figures show that there has been a fall […]
Yesterday, we made the familiar trip to the hospital where my husband had his liver transplant….this time, it was for a more social occasion – the Liver Transplant Unit Christmas breakup. For two hours…which usually ends up being closer to three…we get to meet up with other transplant recipients and their families, as well as […]