Living Donors make up almost 50% of all the donations in the U.S. Even though the term - “living donors” sounds simple, I would like to go little more in detail about what it means and how it means to you.
You and I can donate some of our organs and still remain healthy and live a long life. Not only we live healthy and long, we also help another person live long by donating our organ/tissue.
The following organs can be donated by living donors - kidney, liver, lung, intestine, pancreas.
I will go more in to details in the following days to come. If you have any questions meanwhile, please don’t hesitate to write a comment and I will surely respond to them.
I could not have read a better news than this today. In the age, where workplace is becoming like a place where people meet ( and work) for money, this news of a boss donating his kidney to his office assistant is heart warming.
Congrats and kudos to Chris Jernigan who donated his kidney.
Thanks to the Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19333461/
The following organs can be donated.
- Heart
- Kidneys
- Liver
- Lungs
- Pancreas
- Small Intestine
After writing about Matt and Ron yesterday, I was reading more about Paired Donation Network.
It is a unique and faster way to get a kidney donation for your loved one who needs a transplant.
Paired Donation Network helps in situations where you want to donate a kidney/other organ to your loved one who needs it. But your loved one is unable to accept your donation because of medical reasons. So what you do here is to pledge that you will donate your organ to anyone else who is inneed of it. Similarly, friends and relatives of other patients who needs organ donation will pledge to donate their organs. This increases the possibility of finding a match as the number of people donating for a specific cause increases.
If you are inneed of a transplant, please reach out to your closest Paired Donation Network. More details can be obtained at http://www.paireddonationnetwork.org/ and please, spread the word of paired donation network. God Bless.