Sorry no efi, National Organ, and tissue awaremess week

[David Cooley]

Please don't apologize!
I lost an ex-father-in-law whom I was very close with... He was almost dead 
of Lung Cancer at 50.  On 100% pure O2, he was still slightly blue in the 
lips and nail beds.  After almost 18 months of waiting on the recipient 
list, and near death, a lung came in.  To see this man back looking healthy 
and alive again was a miracle.  It was short lived, as the hospital was 
doing construction, and the OR suites had gotten contaminated with Mucor 
and Aspergillus.  He lost an eye to the Mucor and when he had recovered and 
was back on his feet again, he was struck down fatally by the Aspergillus 
spores.  He and 3 other transplant patients all done within 2 days of each 
other lost their lives to the infection.  Not one of the survivors sued the 
hospital for Malpractice for this abomination of medicine.
I am an organ donor, and if need came up, would give what I could while 
alive (IE: kidney etc).
I think people afraid to donate should be educated.  There is no more 
precious of a gift!.


At 11:01 PM 4/20/00, you wrote:
>I apologize in advance for the lack of efi content, but I can't help not to
>post this
>If you have to flame me please do it off list.
>Grumpy
>
>  Needless to say it's a topic very close to me.
>If your not, please consider being an organ donor.
>It effects so many people, and is a miracle of life.
>While folks think primarily of heart and lungs, the are lots of tissues that
>can make a life normal for someone else.  There are many cosmetic things
>that greatly improve life for the malformed, or burnt.  As good as plastic
>surgeons are they can't create tissue to work with for like noses ears
>eyelids etc..
>You can't in your wildest moments even begin to understand what it is to
>watch your body waste away.  Hearing the words Terminally Ill, and they are
>addressing you.  It's all so crushing.  To get a second chance is just such
>a *GIFT*.
>   To save someone or some people is not to be underestimated.  Heart, lungs,
>liver, kidneys, are all nesessary, long term you can't live without them.
>For someone to see, can you imagine.  For a adolescent disfigured due to an
>accident, or young person suffering from genitic faults.  I got to see some
>graphic stuff of the changes made due to transplants, it's just, well beyond
>words.
>   When your done with em, they still, can be of use to others.   It's still
>a pure program, where nothing matters other then your level of need, if your
>waiting.   No, they don't pull the plug on you either, to harvest you if you
>are a donor.
>   Imagine how you'd feel, if you were losing, the ability to live.  Would
>you want a donor?, don't try to answer that, you'll only know the truth to
>that guestion, should the time come.
>   If your undecided, and want to write me off list, please do.
>Bruce
>
>
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