Today is the inaugural DonateLife Thank You Day…a national day to acknowledge organ and tissue donors and families that agreed to donation. We know first hand just how amazing and life changing organ donation is…my husband received a donor liver approx 1240 days ago…that’s 1240 extra days that he would not have had if he […]
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 […]
Facebook has a feature that reminds you of past events that you have posted about, and today, it reminded us of a day that was one of the most stressful in my husband’s liver transplant journey. It was the day we experienced what is known as a dummy run…it occurs when you get called into […]
Another month down, and winter is now officially finished…yay!! August gave us freezing, cold and wet weather with glimpses of lovely warm weather ahead…and my hay fever has already kicked into gear! So make yourself comfy, and let’s do a quick Monthly Rewind to see what happened round here in August… The month started with […]
This week is DonateLife Week 2015, and has been all about raising awareness about organ and tissue donation. So for this week’s My Friday Five, I am giving five reasons why you should be a registered organ donor. Be a Super Hero! One organ and tissue donor can transform the lives of 10 or more […]
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 […]
Being on a waiting list for an organ donor can be somewhat surreal…some patients are only on the list for a day or two, some for a few months, others for years. And it is even more surreal when you are waiting for a cadaver organ (ie from someone who has died). I can’t begin […]
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 […]