National Organ Transplant Week

[flump1]

An update on my SiL , she has celebrated her anniversary and at the moment , thanks to the donor , is enjoying good health. She is back to work full time, cycling, taking her son to play football and doing all the things we take for granted. SIL is going to be medicated always and has another health problem, however she considers herself so lucky to be given a chance to live and she thanks her donor every day. For those of us on the register she and hundreds like her want to say a gigantic thank you.

[Peter Pedant]

Kidney ?

I am glad she is feeling better - CRF is pretty cr+p and the new kidney makes a lot of difference.

[ummmm]

That's nice.

We're all registered. My youngest son has requested that they don't touch his eyes but they can have everything else.

[flump1]

Hi Peter, it was a double, kidney and pancreas.
Ummmmm , children are sometimes reticent to donate so good on him x

[Tilly2]

I have a card and keep forgetting to register. I will do it today. Thanks for the reminder, flump.

[gness]

Hi, Flump.....lovely to hear about your SIL.....and yes, I too thank the young woman who gave MrG some years of a better life.....xx

[anneasquith]

please please can we have an opt out system.

[gness]

Oh I wish, Anne....would make such a difference...and make people think too...x

[ChillDoubt]

I registered online a few years back, young ChillDoubt knows my wishes should I shuffle off this mortal coil suddenly. I've left them everything, including my peepers.

[mrs_overall]

For those who are NOT registered but wish to do so it takes two minutes. Just click on the link

https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/how_to_become_a_donor/registration/consent.asp

If you are NOT on the register, ask yourself if you would be willing to receive a donated organ. If the answer is 'yes', then sign up, as you should also be willing to give

[sunny-dave]

A really tricky one this - I was on the transplant register for many years, but now I've actually left my body to the local medical school for the students to practice on - but they do need it with all the working parts intact.

So - is that better (in the overall scheme of things) than the possibility that some bits may be of use in transplants?

I don't know the answer - any thoughts chaps?

[The Builder]

Dave, I think both options are essential. One no more than the other.

[gness]

If you have bits suitable for transplant, Dave then it has to be that. You could give good health or indeed life to five or six people.

There are many not suitable to be donors....let them go for research.

[mrs_overall]

dave, I agree with gness. Your working bits and bobs could save the lives of half a dozen people. The medical school will be happy with the leftovers

[pixie373]

My friend's mother-in-law was able to donate - very few can (10%?) because there is such a small window. Her heart valve saved a newborn baby boy and her kidneys each gave a new lease of live to different people. The letters my friend and her husband received from the recipients through the hospital, had us all in tears and a great comfort to them too.

[gness]

Bump...just in case.....☺

[nungate]

Been registered for years, but just in case, Queenie has instructions to make sure that any of my bits than can be of use to anyone in need is welcome to them, when I have finished with them. Mr N. has done the same and we have promised to come back and haunt her if she does not fulfil our wishes.