Charities & Causes

Organ transplantation and donation

Charities & Causes

Posted by: bobskey

16th Mar 2011 11:12pm

Please consider and talk it over with your family the
live saving gift of life. Organ donation can mean the difference between life and death for so many on the waiting list. I was most fortunate enough to have a life saving lung transplant in 1998 and I shall ever be grateful to the family of my donor who I most probably will never meet.

jjdrer
  • 14th Oct 2011 07:29pm

More people should donate blood too unless they have medical problems which prevent them from doing so. My uncle had a condition that his liver manufactured too much iron and they often had to "take" blood ( a fair amount) to help with the problem. It upest him that they were unable to use it for blood transfusions at all. My Mother had a tendency for the same condition and she had to have blood taken occasionally (600ml) and they had no way of using hers either. Some medications also prevent them using your blood for transfusions for others - I mean geniune lifesaving medications - not some taken randomly or because of other addiction.


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