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Charlotte Observer | Tim Funk Gary and Lib look through the basket of cards and prayers that they received from friends and family members. Easter Sunday's promise of new life will have special meaning this year for the Rev. Lib McGregor Simmons and her husband, Gary. In January, he got a liver transplant. A month later, he was home, healthier than he's been since they diagnosed his genetic condition four years ago. "Gary is home!!!!" Lib, pastor of Davidson College Presbyterian Church, blogged to the online community that had rallied around the couple. The generosity of an organ donor not only gave Gary a second chance at life, it also caused Lib and Gary to commit themselves to promote greater awareness of organ donation in the years ahead. And on this Easter Sunday, Lib will speak from personal experience in her sermon on the joy of resurrection. T.Ortega Gaines - ogaines@charlotteobserver.com DAVIDSON On this Sunday morning, when more than a billion Christians cel...

Stacy Kelly, Donate Life Ambassador BOWLING FOR LIFE Charity Fundraiser WHAT:         All proceeds to goest directly to Donate Life Run/Walk for education and organ donation awarenes WHEN: April 7, 2013,   1pm to 4pm Registration starts at noon WHAT:  AMF Cerritos Lanes 18811 Carmenita Road Cerritos, CA  562.924.9363 $20.00 unlimited bowling Silent Auction 50/50 Raffle Donate Life Swag Contact information: Stacy Kelly:  310.991.1641 Raquel Gonzalez: 562.587.0347

American Journal of Transplantation J. M. Poole1, M. Shildrick2, E. De Luca3, S. E. Abbey4, O. E. Mauthner3, P. D. McKeever5, H. J. Ross6,* Article first published online: 22 FEB 2011 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2010.03419.x Abstract Transplant recipients are encouraged to write anonymous thank-you letters to the donor family. We prospectively explored heart transplant recipients’ embodied responses to the ‘obligation’ to write a thank-you letter using audio/video-taped open-ended interviews (N = 27). Fifteen of the 19 participants, who wrote letters to the donor family, expressed or visually revealed significant distress about issues such as the obligation to write anonymously and the inadequacy of the ‘thank-you’. Writing the thank-you letter is not a neutral experience for heart transplant recipients. Rethinking the obligatory practice regarding the thank-you letter and developing the necessary support for the recipient through this process is necessary. Introduction Clinica...

7News The Denver Channel | Dr.Dianne McCallister Dr. Dianne McCallister, Chief Medical Officer at Centura's Porter Adventist Hospital The recent high profile cases of donated organs after severe auto accidents has raised our awareness of this life-saving gift from the victim's family. While organ transplantation has become much more common, many of us still have question regarding how it happens, and how decisions are made to use the organs, and to whom they go. Transplants are such a gift to the recipient - what tissues can be transplanted? Kidneys, liver, the pancreas, intestines, hearts and lungs are the most widely known, but skin, eyes bones, tendons and heart valves are among the other tissues that are transplantable. How do organ donors choose to give their organs? In our state (Colorado), we can choose to be organ donors, and note it, on our driver's licenses. The decision to donate multiple vital organs, which we hear about after severe accidents, is made aft...

The Daily Jeffersonian The month of April is designated National Donate Life Month, a time to reflect on the drastic need for more registered organ, eye and tissue donors. To heighten awareness even further, Donate Life America has created Blue and Green Day, scheduled for April 19, 2013. People across the nation will be wearing blue and/or green to offer HOPE to the more than 117,000 Americans waiting for a life-saving transplant; HONOR the heroes of organ, eye and tissue donation; REMEMBER those that died waiting for their second chance at life; and CELEBRATE the recipients who received the "Gift of Life" through transplantation. How Can You Participate? • Invite your colleagues, contacts and/or customers to wear blue and/or green on April 19, 2013. Show your support for donation via your social media sites. Take a photo of you and your colleagues on April 19 and upload it to your Facebook or Twitter accounts. Be sure to tag Lifeline of Ohio in your post!  • Take a p...

WFAA | Janet St. James DALLAS -- "I'm trying to get off of using my cane," said 66-year-old Gene Edwards, leaning slightly on his wife. "My balance is getting better with this kidney and everything else." But, the new kidney giving Edwards renewed energy didn't come from his wife. At least, not directly. In August, Gene received a Good Samaritan's kidney. That same day, his wife, Debra, paid the good deed forward, by donating her own healthy kidney to another stranger in need. "I wanted him to live," Debra said, "and I wanted to be with him as long as I could." About a third of all interested, living kidney donors, like Debra, are not compatible with their intended recipient, according to the transplant services division of Baylor Health Care System. An organ swap, called a "paired kidney donation," involves a network of similar willing donors across the country. Sometimes many donors and recipients are included. Continue re...

UCLA News Grandfather, 57, looks forward to celebrating Easter with family and friends Fernando Padilla could barely breathe or walk more than a few steps. An incurable disease, pulmonary fibrosis, was causing his lungs to turn to hardened scar tissue, and he was permanently tethered to an oxygen tank. His only hope was a double lung transplant. In November 2012, he got an early-morning call that a pair of donor lungs was available. Upon arriving at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, he was told of a new study testing an experimental device â€" a portable organ-preservation system that keeps donor lungs functioning and "breathing" in a near-physiologic state outside the body during transport to a recipient, instead of the standard method, in which the organs are kept in an icebox in a non-functioning, non-breathing state. Padilla consented to participate in the study and was randomized to become the first patient at UCLA â€" and in the United States â€" to u...

Organ & Tissue Donation Blog The unbridled increase in those now waiting for a life-saving organ transplant has climbed to over 117,000. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) website, the transplant candidate wait-list by organ are as follows: ALL ORGANS: 117,280 KIDNEY:                         95,578 LIVER:                            15,712 PANCREAS:                     1,189 KIDNEY-PANCREAS:       2,136 HEART:                            3,490 LUNG:                              1,668 HEART-LUNG:                      50 INTESTINES:             ...

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Donate Life North Carolina 8th Annual Donate Life Walk and Run Saturday, April 20, 2013, rain or shine.  8:30am - 9:15am Registration  9:30am 5K Run  9:35am 3K Fun Walk Pre-registration pick-up is Friday, April 19, 2013 11am - 1pm & 4pm - 7pm at Fleet Feet, 50 Miller Street Winston-Salem, NC 27104. Parking: Participants will park at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in the Eden Terrace Parking Deck off of Hawthorne Road and be shuttled to Forsyth Medical Center to begin the walk. The shuttle will begin at 8:15am. Where: The walk begins at Forsyth Regional Cancer Center and ends at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Babcock Auditorium. Entry Fees: The entry fee includes pre and post event refreshments, race awards, door prizes and event t-shirt. **T-shirts are guaranteed for pre-registered participants and available on a first come first serve basis after that. You must attend the event to receive a t-shirt** Registration Fees: 3K Fun Walk - $20 5K Run - $2...

Miami Herald | Suzette Laboy Photo: Fatema Al Ansari of Qatar, left, front, looks on as Dr. Salih Yasin adjusts the clothing of her baby, Alkadi Alhayal, held by her husband, Khalifa Alhayal, during a news conference at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Al Ansari was diagnosed with a condition called mesenteric thrombosis at age 19, causing her abdominal organs to fail. She is the first multivisceral transplant patient in the world to conceive and give birth. LYNNE SLADKY / AP MIAMI -- A woman who was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine at a Miami hospital in 2007 has delivered a healthy baby girl, believed to be the first known case of a five-organ transplant patient giving birth. Fatema Al Ansari, 26, said Wednesday she was overjoyed after giving birth by cesarean section Feb. 26. She held the sleeping child at a gathering with reporters Wednesday at the same hospital, Jackson Memorial, where she had transplant surgery in 2007. ...

Patheos | Adam Lee Since new medical advances always catch my attention, I read with interest this article about “bloodless” lung transplants being pioneered at some hospitals â€" that is, salvaging and re-infusing the patient’s own blood, rather than relying on transfusions from donors. It’s being sold as a cost-saving technique and a way to lessen the risk of allergic reactions or other rare side effects, plus it conserves donated blood so that more is available for emergencies. But the technique was developed for a different reason, which I bet you can guess: Ms. Tomczak, who was baptized at age 12 as a Jehovah’s Witness, insisted for religious reasons that her transplant be performed without a blood transfusion. The Witnesses believe that Scripture prohibits the transfusion of blood, even one’s own, at the risk of forfeiting eternal life. I must be jaded, because the idea of a Jehovah’s Witness refusing blood and dying because of it doesn’t shock me any more. B...

NEJM Perspective Robert D. Truog, M.D., and Franklin G. Miller, Ph.D. N Engl J Med 2008; 359:674-675August 14, 2008DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0804474 ORGAN DONATION AFTER CARDIAC DEATH In this issue of the Journal, Boucek et al. (pages 709â€"714) report on three cases of heart transplantation from infants who were pronounced dead on the basis of cardiac criteria. The three Perspective articles and a video roundtable discussion at www.nejm.org address key ethical aspects of organ donation after cardiac death. Bernat and Veatch comment on the cases described by Boucek et al.; Truog and Miller raise a fundamental question about the dead donor rule. In a related Perspective roundtable, moderator Atul Gawande, of Harvard Medical School, is joined by George Annas, of the Boston University School of Public Health; Arthur Caplan, of the University of Pennsylvania; and Robert Truog. Watch the roundtable online at www.nejm.org. Since its inception, organ transplantation has been guided by the overar...

The Under Dog for Kids | By Diana L. Chapman Carl Valverde Jr. enjoying time with his 5-year-old daughter Destinee before he was killed. Violent Homicide of Yet Another Young San Pedro Man Ends Up Saving Many Other Lives; Los Angeles Police Want His Killer and His Family and Friends Want Justice He was the kind of kid most of us in the more affluent enclave of San Pedro don't want to know about. He did drugs. Had two children, one when he was 14, the other at 19. He moved from house to house many times because he didn't want to work or follow his mother's "tough love" rules after she made herself a better life and remarried. He was estranged from his biological father, who is currently in jail. His mother, Angela Perez, knows the exact day she first lost her 19-year-old son, Carl Valverde Jr. He was 11-years-old. His toddler brother, Robert, 3, had pulled balloons out of Carl's pocket and began chewing on them. When they both yelped asking what he had, Robert...

SouthTampa-HydePark Patch From officials at ChappellRoberts: Join us as hundreds of people sprint, run or walk through Historic Ybor City in the 12th Annual Race for Sight 5k run and 1-mile walk held by the Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research . All proceeds from the race go to helping the blind and visually impaired across the globe. This year, in an effort to support organ donation, the LifeLink Foundation is teaming up with LEITR for a “Donate Life Florida Linking Hands Event” before the race. Additionally, LTG Franklin L. Hagenbeck, USA (Ret.), former superintendent of WestPoint and advocate for physical education, will hold a moment of silence for our troops and officially kick-off the race festivities. Below are the event's details: WHO: The general public can register for the race here. WHEN : Saturday, April 20 Runner’s check-in at 6:30 a.m. 5K and 1-mile walk begins at 7:30 a.m. Awards and celebration at 9:00 a.m. WHERE : Centennial Park in Historic Yb...

Local2 Sault Ste. Marie Don Cherry, hockey legend and longtime host of CBC's Coach's Corner, is donating his 1997 Yukon to The Kidney Foundation of Canada's Kidney Car program on World Kidney Day. The program benefits are far reaching - and anyone can take advantage of them. The Kidney Foundation's Kidney Car program, which tows vehicles for free, provides a tax receipt to the donor and facilitates responsible vehicle recycling, resale or auction, raises nearly $2.5 million annually. The revenue from Kidney Car is invested in activities to help people living with kidney disease, such as peer support, innovative research and raising awareness of the importance of life-saving organ donation as a preferred treatment for kidney failure. Organ donation is a cause particularly dear to Don Cherry's heart. On World Kidney Day, his message is particularly strong: "Hi Folks, I'll bet you are just like me when I coached the Boston Bruins, what's all this stuff abo...

National Kidney Foundation Today is World Kidney Day! Help support the 26 million Americans with kidney disease! Share this post and spread the word about risk factors, the importance of early detection and the need for organ donors, www.kidney.org March is National Kidney Month, the perfect time to take this simple quiz from the NKF.  Check “Yes” or “No” to the questions below: Do you have diabetes?  Yes  No Do you have high blood pressure?  Yes  No Do you have heart disease?  Yes  No Are you 60 years of age or older?  Yes  No Is your ethnic background African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Native American or Pacific Islander?  Yes  No Do you suffer from muscle cramping at night?  Yes  No Do you have swollen feet and ankles?  Yes  No Do you have puffiness around the eyes, particularly in the morning?  Yes  No Do you feel the urge to urinate more often, especially at night?  Yes  No Do you...

St. Louis Today Few days ago I was called to read an electroencephalogram (EEG) on a comatose patient for possible brain death. The EEG and blood flow studies were consistent with brain death. Family had consented to donate the organs for transplant; a very hard for the family. You are losing a life and hoping to save others’. Each year all over the hospitals in America families and medical professionals make these decisions; but still we are losing so many lives due to lack of donors. About 7000 people die each year that are on wait list for organ transplantation. It is estimated that about 15,000 may be potential donors each year in USA, but only fraction are realized. Making a personal decision to donate one’s organs or made by a family member in the absence of known wishes of the loved one, is a very complex issue. For so many reasons we tend to postpone to make this choice; prefer not to face the uncomfortable topic of death, lack of information regarding the process of donati...

Donate Life Run/Walk Why: Over 117,000 Americans are on the national transplant waiting list hoping for a second chance at life. Everyday, 28 people die waiting, a person is added to the waiting list very 11 minutes. Proceeds from the Donate Life Run/Walk benefits the OneLegacy Foundation whose mission is to save and heal lives by inspiring and advancing donation and transplantation of organs and tissues through research, public education, and honoring donors whose legacies live on. To learn more about the OneLegacy Foundation, please visit HERE What: A non-competitive 5K/1K Run/Walk to educate and inspire the community about organ and tissue donation while benefiting the OneLegacy Foundation. Who: All runners and walkers, dialysis patients, transplant recipients, organ donors, donors families, allied health professionals and students are invited to come out and participate! Donor families are invited to make their own patch for the OneLegacy Bridging Lives Quilt When: Saturday April 2...

The Toronto Star | Theresa Boyle Toronto surgeon Dr. Shaf Keshavjee’s innovations are transforming how lung transplants are done. He has lead the development of the Toronto XVIVO Perfusion System, which treats and improves high-risk donor lungs so they can be safely used for transplant. Photo: RANDY RISLING / TORONTO STAR Dr. Shaf Keshavjee, seen in the hall of Toronto General Hospital immediately after he performed a double-lung transplant in February, has received the Order of Ontario for his innovative work in his field. Dr. Shaf Keshavjee apologizes as his BlackBerry keeps buzzing. He is receiving emails from the Trillium Gift of Life Network , Ontario’s organ and tissue donation agency. They are offering him a pair of lungs â€" organs from an individual whose identity must be kept secret for ethical reasons, and likely the victim of a recent accident, head injury or brain hemorrhage â€" from some undisclosed location in Canada. Keshavjee, director of the Lung Transpl...

Greenwich Time | Neil Vigdor Victor Tiriolo Jr. outside of Chicken Joe's in Cos Cob, where he works, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Tiriolo was part of the first four-way kidney swap at Yale-New Haven Medical Center and is now being pursued by a collection agency for the $40,000 operation, despite assurances from his designated hospital advocate that the insurance of the Wilton woman he gave a kidney to would pick up the cost of the transplant that has now wrecked his credit. Tiriolo's father, Victor Tiriolo Sr. who died in December at age 71, received a kidney from the woman's husband in October. Photo: Bob Luckey There's a void inside Victor Tiriolo Jr. It cuts much deeper than a missing left kidney, which the Cos Cob native and Seymour resident donated as part of the first four-way kidney swap performed in Connecticut last October. It comes from the loss of his father, Victor Tiriolo Sr., a veteran postman who was also part of the swap and died two months after the simulta...

Chestnut Hill Local | J.B. Hyppolite Rosalyn Wiggins Berne, who graduated from Greene Street Friends School in 1969, is an ethicist, futurist, author, professor and innovator. (Photo by Kaya Berne) Rosalyn Wiggins Berne, 55, is surely one of the graduates of Greene Street Friends School of whom the schools is most proud. Now a science professor at the University of Virginia, she is also the author of “Nanotalk: Conversation with Scientists and Engineers about Ethics, Meaning and Belief in the Development of Nanotechnology” as well as the novel, “Waiting in the Silence.” For “Nanotalk” Berne, who has a doctorate degree in bioethics, interviewed 35 scientists over the course of five years. Berne’s study of bioethics began with a tragedy following a dream she had when she was 38 weeks pregnant. The outcome has led her on a journey of science and self-discovery that continues to this day. “It’s been 27 years since I had that dream,” she told us in an interview last mon...

Mt. Vernon Register | Rick Hayes Ernest and Rose Kujawa of the Scheller area examine their wedding photographs in their home. The Kujawas will be observing their 50th wedding anniversary in the coming month. Ernest this week celebrated his 25th year as a heart transplant recipient.  Ernest Kujawa celebrated 25 years of being a successful heart transplant recipient on Thursday SCHELLER â€" â€" Ernest Kujawa reached a milestone on Thursday â€" 25 years of being a successful heart transplant recipient. No special plans were observed by his family on the occasion, although he and his wife will reach another milestone this spring. "I'm just thankful that I've got to live this long because I didn't expect to live that long after a transplant," Kujawa said. "I've been able to see both of my kids get married, all of the grandchildren come along, and in May we'll celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, so I've got a lot to be thankful f...

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Avon Patch When Lorraine Tierney talks about her daughter, Jennifer, her pride is always apparent. She’s so proud that Jennifer consistently made honor roll, that although she wasn’t the star player, she gave it her all playing soccer, basketball or softball and that she was always so loving towards her younger sister, Michelle. Lorraine also couldn’t be more proud that when Jennifer’s life was suddenly and tragically ended, she saved others in the process. “From the time she learned of organ donation, she told me she wanted to be an organ donor. She told me this repeatedly,” said Lorraine. “I told her to be sure she put it on her license when the time came, to tell her father, and to be sure her husband knew. She continued to mention it, and mention it, and mention it. I remember telling her once, enough! No more talk about it.” As it turned out, Lorraine was thankful her young daughter made her wishes so clear. When Jennifer was just 12-years-old, she was killed in ...

New York Times | Kevin Sack Photo: Eric Kayne for The New York Times. SHARING HOME AND FAITH A Houston couple hosted Gene and Rebecca Tomczak, center, in October so she could get care nearby. HOUSTON â€" Last April, after being told that only a transplant could save her from a fatal lung condition, Rebecca S. Tomczak began calling some of the top-ranked hospitals in the country. She started with Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, just hours from her home near Augusta, Ga. Then she tried Duke and the University of Arkansas and Johns Hopkins. Each advised Ms. Tomczak, then 69, to look somewhere else. The reason: Ms. Tomczak, who was baptized at age 12 as a Jehovah’s Witness, insisted for religious reasons that her transplant be performed without a blood transfusion. The Witnesses believe that Scripture prohibits the transfusion of blood, even one’s own, at the risk of forfeiting eternal life. Given the complexities of lung transplantation, in which transfusions are routine, s...

The Valley News Photo: Tim Sweeney, 48, will premiere a series of shows at The Merc in Temecula on March 1 in an attempt to increase the amount of registered organ donors in... TEMECULA â€" By this time of the year most people have either forgotten or given up on their New Year’s resolution. While most people focus on something they believe they can achieve Tim Sweeney, 48, has aimed for something everyone has said is crazy. Sweeney’s New Year’s resolution is to get every man, woman, and child in Temecula to become registered organ donors before he dies from the terminal illness he has. Considering the current population of Temecula is more than 100,000 people, it is almost impossible that one man could accomplish this, but the City of Temecula has already begun helping him accomplish that goal. The City of Temecula will be presenting a series of monthly shows starting at The Mercantile Theatre, known as The Merc, starring Tim Sweeney. While everyone seems to be trying to si...