Promoting organ donation awarness, reseaching up and comming advancements in the world of organ and tissue donation. Hearing other peoples stories and sharing my own.
Here are a few myths and facts about organ and tissue donation
Myth:
If emergency room doctors know you’re an organ donor, they won’t work as hard to save you. Fact: If you are sick or injured and admitted to the hospital, the number one priority is to save your life. Organ donation can only be considered if you die and after your family has been consulted.
Myth:
Having "organ donor" noted on your driver's license or carrying a donor card is all you have to do to become a donor. Fact: While a signed donor card and a driver's license with an "organ donor" designation are legal documents, organ and tissue donation is always discussed with family members prior to the donation. To ensure that your family understands your wishes, it is important that you share your decision to donate life.
Myth:
Organs are sold, with enormous profits going to the medical community. Fact: Federal law prohibits buying and selling organs in the U.S. Violators are punishable by prison sentences and fines. to donate life.
Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone-- Before you decide to be against organ donation consider yourself in a position where you needed a transplant, would you accept organs? If you would then why would you deny someone else the chance at life by refusing to ever donate yourself.
I'd like to meet:
DO YOU WANT TO BE A HERO? DO YOU WANT TO SAVE A LIFE?
THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF HEROS TODAY. THEY RANGE FROM FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS, TO POLICE, FIREFIGHTERS, MEDICS AND DOCTORS, AND EVEN ATHLETES AND CELEBRITIES.
BUT THE HERO I'M TALKING ABOUT IS THE SILENT, UNSUNG HERO. THE TYPE OF HERO WHO KNOWS THEY DID THE RIGHT THING WHETHER THEY’RE RECOGNIZED OR NOT; A HERO WHO NEVER KNOWS WHEN HE OR SHE WILL BE CALLED UPON. THE BEST KIND OF HERO!
THE TYPE OF HERO I SPEAK OF IS AN ORGAN DONOR. ARE YOU THIS TYPE OF HERO?
ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS SIGN YOUR DONOR CARD. YOU MAY BE CALLED UPON TO BE A HERO ONE DAY, OR YOU MAY ONE DAY NEED A HERO TO SAVE YOUR LIFE!
I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONSIDER SIGNING YOUR DONOR CARD. SPEAK ABOUT IT WITH LOVED ONES AND LET THEM KNOW YOUR WISHES. THINK OF BEING THAT UNSUNG HERO THAT MAY HELP AND SAVE AS MANY AS 50 LIVES!
BE A HERO, BE AN ORGAN DONOR.
This is about networking ppl with other ppl in the same situation soo if you would like to be added please tell a little about your situations in the comment section after. Sharing great storys is the only way to spread the word and save more lives!
Music:
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AS AN ORGAN DONOR IN ONTARIO CANADA
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AS AN ORGAN DONOR IN THE UNITED STATES
Heroes:
Anyone who has donated or has received the gift of life and thoes who have fought to the very end and thoes who have survived.
And least of all the families of thoes who have passed and yet in there time of great greif and sorrow think of others by way of allowing there loved ones to live on in others!
GOD BLESS THEM ALL AND THANK YOU!
DEDICATED TO ALL THE DONORS OUT THERE
IN MEMORY OF DONORS NO LONGER WITH US...
Victor Davis
10/02/64~13/11/89
Cody Shaw Prewitt
1988~09/07/04
Adam Vaughn
Kyle G.R. Langille
17/11/2000~05/07/2002
Ian Kyndale Cooper, age 7
9-6-93 to 0-18-2000
Helped 6+ lives as a donor
Steven Micheal
03/02/87~07/11/05
Joshua David Braswell
01/31/80~06/26/03 Saved 6 lives
Edward W.Berryhill
11/19/82~08/14/03
Justin Younginer
4/16/84~12/27/05
IN HONOR OF LIVING DONORS WHO HAVE STEPPED UP TO SAVE A LIFE...
My dad Sept 1991
Chris Cox & Nick Merlino (Kidney Donation 06-08-06)
Shawna Bagozzi a kidney to Chanthamaly Boupha 09/05/06
Kidney donor to sister June 2006
Brother donated to his sister 12/07/06
Rachel Mehlin donated to her brother Justin Tostado 4/5/06. BOTH ARE DOING AWESOME!!!
Eric Long recieved at kidney at age 2 from his father David Long
10/31/88
Elizabeth Strickler gave her kidney to me, Dianne Tubbs, on 12/21/06.
Pru & her tattoo of OUR kidney
Donated to Judanne
