A LESSON IN LIFE. PART FOUR.

"So, you can have a liver transplant, a kidney transplant, a lung transplant, a double lung transplant, pancreas, intestine and many more including a heart transplant. Brings a new meaning to the word Life.

I only know one person who has had a transplant and it was a heart transplant, and every year she remembers her donor, she has set up a remembrance section in her garden."

 The Borrowed Heart, (is from a blog on Facebook 19 January 2016)

19 January 2016 ·

Ever wonder how organ transplants work? The recipient takes immune-suppressing meds every 12 hours for the rest of their life so that their body doesn't try to fight the foreign cells, putting the patient into "rejection". This is what is most life-threatening to a recipient. If their body does detect the organ it will destroy it, if the rejection is mild and caught early, it is typically treatable. If not, the patient can die, very quickly. If medications are not taken on time, or missed, it may cause rejection. Rejection is a transplant patient's worst nightmare. Beside missed meds, most rejections happen as a result of a prior illness, which revs up the immune system to fight it off, and while in full-blown attack mode, it finds the foreign organ. This is why it is so important for patients to stay healthy, and why parents of transplanted kids may seem a little crazy when they ask you to use hand sanitizer whenever you come into their home (don't worry, they'll supply it, every one of them I know has a giant bottle by the front door) or cancels a play date if your kid has a runny nose. Besides our kids taking twice as long to rid themselves of any and every infection because they're fighting with a sad and puny army, any illness can easily grant them a hospital stay, and at the risk of sounding dramatic, potentially cost them their life. #youjustgotalittlesmarter

Share Your Wishes (is from Facebook)

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“In the UK, there are 328 people on the heart transplant list, of which 39 are children. The average person has to wait three years – 1,085 days – for a heart, a duration that has increased significantly in the past decade as the waiting list for heart transplants more than doubled.

Around three-quarters of all hearts donated in the UK are rejected for transplant – in some cases because they are unsuitable but in part because they cannot reach the patient in time.

Thousands of lives could be saved across the world after scientists developed a new technique that could drastically reduce the wait for a heart transplant.

The method has the potential to extend the length of time a heart can be viable after being removed from the donor.

This would extend the preservation time for hearts from four hours using the traditional storage method of an ice box to 24 hours with the new machine, the US developers say.”

John Forsythe, medical director for organ donation and transplant at NHS Blood and Transplant, said: “For a heart transplant to be successful, the time between retrieval and transplantation­ is particularly crucial.”

Please #ShareYourWishes about your organ donation decisions.

Share Your Wishes (is from Facebook) 

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Chris and Lauren raise awareness for organ donation following the untimely passing of their little Nora.

Their 11 month old daughter never got the chance for a life-saving transplant, but instead she became a donor and gave life.

"We believe that she wasn't called to this earth to receive a donation. We believe that she was called to be a donor," Chris said. "She gave her heart and she saved some other little boy or girl."

"That brings us comfort, knowing that some kind of beauty can rise from the ashes of such a horrible thing to have to go through."

Please #ShareYourWishes about your organ donation decisions.

(From Facebook)

A gift from an Organ Donor brings New Life for someone desperately waiting for an Organ Transplant to save their life.

We honour and thank organ donors everywhere. Without their families agreeing lives would not, and will not be saved, so to all the donor families we thank you for your strength. In the midst of your sadness you agreed to give life and hope to others. The gift of life you have given so freely and in love is appreciated every day. Love lives on, thanks to your courage and compassion. Thank you for your strength.

Have you agreed to be a donor to someone in need? If you have, thank you. Now please share this post and you could encourage others to follow your steps and share their wishes about their organ donation decision.

Please think about organ donation, talk about it, share your decisions and give hope.

#Shareyourwishes about your organ donation decision.

Without the Organ Donor there is no story, no hope, no transplant. But when there is Organ Donor, Life springs from death, sorrow turns to hope and a terrible loss becomes a gift. Taken from #shareyourwishes. (From Facebook)

Organ Donors are the real Heroes. I’m here today because of one. I’m humbled by that. Taken from #shareyourwishes.  (From Facebook) 

"There is that wonderful video where the father lost his twenty year old daughter and he asked all four people whose lives were saved, who had received transplants from her to meet him on Father’s Day but only one man turned up, he had received her heart, his name is Jack Lounmouth JR, Bill is handed a stethoscope a year after his daughter Abbey’s  death he listens to her heart beating again. Bill had peddled on his bike almost 1430 miles to meet Jack, he said, “Well, it’s working.” (Many videos of this on Facebook)

"Today I was shown a video of a Dad called John Reid whose Son Dakota age sixteen died in a car accident his organs was donated to those who needed it, his heart went to a man name Roger, then one year after receiving the heart Roger sent John a special gift, a teddy bear, when the paw is pressed he is able to hear loud and clear the sound of his Son’s heart beating again. A very moving video as John cries." (From Facebook - LADbible)

"In memory of J.L. who died 10th February 2020A.D. age 25 whose organs went to five different people, giving them Life. RIP. X"