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Alex O'Loughlin Fans for Donate Life Our Colleagues at Alex O'Loughlin Fans for Donate Life  has posted DonateLife Week a comprehensive schedule of events on their webpage. FEBRUARY 26TH-27TH NEW SOUTH WALES: 27 FEBRUARY 2013 LET’S HAVE A YARN â€" DONATE LIFE AND GIVE OUR PEOPLE A SECOND CHANCE OF LIFE MINJUNGBAL ABORIGINAL CULTURAL CENTRE NSW 27 FEBRUARY 2013 - 01 MARCH 2013 O WEEK UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY NSW 27 FEBRUARY 2013 ORGAN AND TISSUE DONATION INFORMATION SESSION MPAC NSW 27 FEBRUARY 2013 ORGAN DONATION AWARENESS WEEK 2013 - ORGAN DONATION AWARENESS MORNING TEA BETHUNGRA OLD SCHOOL T-HOUSE - BETHUNGRA NSW Please visit their webpage for all the details

Donate Life America National Blue & Green Day is Friday, April 19 Check out our resources! Facebook Materials Facebook Timeline Cover â€"  English ,  Spanish  Facebook Profile Picture Avatars â€"  ZIP Folder English Version,   ZIP Folder Spanish Version Or click on each Avatar to download individually. *After uploading to Facebook, be sure to edit the thumbnail and scale to fit.*                                          Web Banners Web Banner, donatelife.net info, 300 x 250 â€"  English ,  Spanish Web Banner, donatelife.net info, 728 x 90 â€"  English ,  Spanish Web Banner, generic info, 300 x 250 â€"  English ,  Spanish Web Banner, generic info, 728 x 90 â€"  English ,  Spanish Print Ad , 8 x 10 â€"  English ,  Spanish For more information and additional resources please visit Donate Life America

Merle Jam Transplant Fund & Concert MerleJam 2013 is shaping up quite nicely. Midwest Transplant Network and Xdx, Inc (AlloMap) are onboard as sponsors. This year we are featuring a two time Grammy winner, Delbert McClinton and expect a record turnout.  MerleJam Transplant Fund helps heart transplant recipients in the Kansas City area with uncovered medical expenses. The event also helps increase awareness in the community about the success of organ donation and the need for more registered donors. The two day benefit concert held at Knuckleheads Saloon in Kansas City. Net proceeds from the shows provide assistance to pre- and post-op heart transplant patients and their families. This will be the 7th year of the concerts. The concert and fundraiser was started by heart recipient Merle Zuel in 2007. Delbert McClinton Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis will be headlining the country show Friday night May 3rd @ MerleJam. Outlaw Jim & the Whiskey Benders & Tater & Gravy T...

University of British Columbia Presented in partnership with the Faculty of Medicine Nobody wants to think about, let alone discuss, the idea of dying or being critically or chronically ill. However, it’s precisely in these situations that you or your loved ones will have so many questions and not enough time. What’s the difference between palliative care, hospices, nursing homes, and long term care? How does the system make admittance decisions? What does DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) or “extreme measures” really cover and what other situations should be considered? How much authority does a family member have when the patient cannot speak for themselves? How do you ensure your organ donation wishes are carried out? Would your organs ever be refused? How common are living donations? What happens if I don’t have a will? What is a living will and what does it cover? Join us as our panel of experts offer advice and perspectives on these matters and more. We all need to think about t...

Revive Hope | Steve Ferkau Kari's Klimbers - Hustle up the Hancock, 2013 - more new Iowa parts!!!   It’s time to take the stairs 94 floors to the top of the John Hancock again!!! Last year was quite special â€" it was my 10th climb. And, among the 150 people on my Kari’s Klimbers team, there were also more than 30 people with me who Kari knew, and grew up with â€" including Kari’s Mom & Godmother, and Sister & Cousin… It’s within the realm of possibility that last year may have been my last climb â€" I was in kidney failure. After 12 years with Kari’s beautiful lungs, the drugs I take to keep her gift destroyed my kidneys. I would have likely been on dialysis by May, June or July and likely unable to climb in this year. But I’m not. I’m climbing. Because on May 8th, one of Kari’s friends â€" Alex â€" gave me one of her kidneys. It seems I'm slowly being rebuilt into a girl from Iowa. Alex This is my 11th climb, the 10th...

Medical Center of Lewisville One organ donor can save up to eight lives. Wondering about becoming an organ donor? In honor of National Donor Day, February 14, here are five great reasons to go ahead and register. 1. There's a great need. The United States Department of Health & Human Services estimates that nearly 117,000 people are in need of a donated organ, and that 18 of those people will die each day while waiting to receive one. 2. Every donor counts. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services states that a single organ donor can save up to eight lives. 3. There's very likely nothing that would make you an unsuitable candidate for organ donation. You're not too young or too old to be an organ donator, all races and ethnicities can donate, and very few health concerns (HIV infection, active cancer, systemic infection) make you ineligible to donate. 4. You may inspire friends and family to give the gift of life as you help neighbors.Tell family and friends a...

Herald OnLine Supermodel Emily Sandberg Volunteers To Help Riley O'Brien SOMERDALE, N.J., FEB. 20, 2013 â€" /PRNewswire/ -- Riley O'Brien has fought for life since before he was born. During his Mother's 22 week pregnancy checkup the doctor determined there was a problem. The baby boy she was carrying had Heterotaxy Syndrome and Congenital heart disease. The doctors informed the O'Briens that a baby with this type of diagnosis had a 50% survival rate. upermodel EmilThis little boy is under the care of a team of doctors led by Doctor Rome of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Riley has endured 26 heart cath procedures to help him live. His little veins and body are growing weaker. He has been experiencing seizures of late. The Neurologists are trying to determine what is happening in his brain to cause them to happen. Riley lives with the help of an Oxygen tank around the clock. He is not able to go to preschool and play with kids as all healthy children d...

PR Newswire Girlfriend Donates Kidney to Her Boyfriend for Valentine's Day, National Donor Awareness Day KANSAS CITY, Kan., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- While flowers, dinner and chocolate work as gifts for some couples this Valentine's Day, one Kansas City couple had a very unique gift experience. Taesha Benson granted her boyfriend, Travis Spire-Sweet , the ultimate gift of love: her left kidney Travis, an acupuncturist, had suffered chronic kidney problems since birth. Having been born with only 25 percent of a functioning kidney, Travis wasn't expected to live past his first birthday. After learning to cope with chronic pain and discomfort, Travis became an advocate for other patients suffering from kidney disease. He had been on the deceased donor list for more than a year. Now, thanks to the donation of Taesha's kidney, which was a perfect match, Travis can look forward to a healthier and longer life. It's estimated that 69.3 percent of patients who received ...

Digital Triad Thomas and Kim Duncan made a hospital room more loving than a romantic hotel on Valentine's Day. Instead of sexy underwear, they put on matching hospital gowns Thursday morning at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where Kim gave her husband of 25 years a kidney. The Jackson, Tenn., couple said they are blessed because she is a transplant match. "What better day to show God's love as much as our love?" Kim Duncan said before they were wheeled back to the operating room. Thomas Duncan considers himself to be a lucky man. Besides having a beautiful wife willing to give him one of her kidneys, he has twice before received the gift of this vital organ. He asked people who have not signed up to be organ donors to do so this Valentine's Day and share the love. "I've been on both sides of the fence," he said. "I've been on a dialysis machine three days a week, knowing that's what I had to do to sustain life. It is a life, but i...

Metrowny | Melanie Hulick HULICK: Hi Bobby. You’re returning to Seneca Niagara Casino for one show on Saturday, February 16th. RYDELL: Yes! I’m coming back! I like playing that venue. It’s called the Bears Den right? HULICK: Yes. I’ve never seen your show. What can we expect? RYDELL: A lot of singing! (laughs) I do some comedy, and just have a lot of fun. Of course I do a lot of the hits and I do a “Bye, Bye, Birdie” medley, which is from the movie I did with Ann Margret. I also do a tribute to Bobby Darin, who I adored. HULICK: Have you always wanted to be a singer? RYDELL: As long as I can remember Melanie. As a matter of fact, I still have a letter that my mom sent to my dad when he was overseas, which at that time I would have been three years old… yes, it was 1945. My mom wrote to him and at the end of this letter she wrote, “The baby’s always singing.” My dad wrote back, “Who knows… maybe one day we’ll have a star in the family.” So if I had any talent...

Daily Herald | By Madhu Krishnamurthy Valet decides casino regular should have his kidney For a year and a half, Timothy Brennan has been a regular at Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, faithfully playing the slots with the hope of winning big. Brennan recently hit the jackpot. But it was something the 64-year-old Elmhurst man could never have imagined winning, and more valuable than all the money the casino could ever pay out: a kidney donated by a casino valet. After surviving triple bypass surgery, losing a portion of his left ear to cancer, and having his gall bladder removed, Brennan was told about five years ago that his kidneys were failing. He was given three weeks to live if he didn't immediately start dialysis treatment. Brennan had been on dialysis for nearly four years when he met Jaime Maldonado. Continue reading

Washington Post (Seth Wenig/ AP ) - In this July 4, 2012 file photo, Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco of Staten Island, N.Y., left, Marine Cpl. Todd Love of Atlanta, Ga., center, and Marine Cpl. Juan Dominguez of Deming, N.M., pose for a picture at the 9/11 Memorial in New York. Marrocco, 26, the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq war, has received a double-arm transplant in Baltimore. “The nonacceptance rate of prosthetics is highest among young people in their 20s and 30s,” he said. So the possibility of limb transplantation, despite its enormous medical, psychological and logistical complexity, holds great promise, he said. Aside from the physical outcome, “I think it also has additional advantage for the patient to be restored whole,” the doctor said. “Once they’re transplanted, they regard the arm as theirs. And I think they’re more comfortable going out on social occasions, as opposed to wearing a prosthetic.” Marrocco, a fair-skinned young man w...

KSLA 12 | Jennifer Bowen Photo: Brendan Marrocco, who lost his limbs in 2009 in a roadside bomb attack, recently received new arms in a double arm transplant. (Source: CNN) BALTIMORE (RNN) - A soldier who lost all four of his limbs in Iraq has successfully undergone a double arm transplant. In what Johns Hopkins Hospital calls the most complicated limb transplant procedure ever performed in the U.S., doctors surgically attached the arms to Brendan Marrocco, who lost his limbs in 2009 in a roadside bomb attack. Marrocco, joined by a team of surgeons, showed the new arms to the media on Tuesday. The procedure was performed on Dec. 18 of last year. "It's given me a lot of hope for the future. I feel like I'm getting a second chance to start over after I got hurt. So I'm excited, excited for the future and see where I can go with it," Marrocco, 26, said. Surgeons also transplanted bone marrow to help prevent rejection of the limbs. Marrocco, who completed his training...

The Independent | Emily Dugan As demand rises relentlessly, pressure on the system is increased by families who refuse to honour loved ones' wishes Leading health experts warned yesterday that Britain is heading towards a national "tragedy" where more people than ever will die waiting for organs, as growing demand combines with high rates of families refusing consent for donation. Demand for kidneys, which make up the majority of donor operations, is at an all-time high. The number of people in the UK with established renal failure went up by 23 per cent between 2001 and 2010, taking the total to 40,000. Three people die every day in Britain waiting for urgent organ transplants, and there are currently 7,450 people on the waiting list. Lynne Holt, a national campaigner and clinical transplant co-ordinator at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, said: "Unless public perception changes and more people discuss their wishes, the tragedy is that more people will die waiting...