I’m writing today from Los Angeles, where I’m attending a convention for my day job (which has nothing to do with living organ donation stuff). And wouldn’t you know it, the city has delivered me an experience to remember — my first earthquake! It was “just” a 5.4 on the Richter scale, but from my [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Life affirming shakes
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Des Moines: Got it goin’ on!
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Organ donation, Organ transplants, Spread the word, Transplant Games on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s hear it for my hometown! Two great items to share with our living donor community and its extended members of transplant recipients, families and friends, and health care professionals. Both nuggest come from my original stomping grounds here on the planet: Des Moines, Iowa.
First, today in the Des Moines Register there’s a terrific article by [...]
What’s on your plate?
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Organ donation, Spread the word on July 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Want to help tell the world about the importance of organ donation? Here’s a way I hadn’t thought of before I learned of it at the Transplant Games: A custom organ donation license plate! Unfortunately, my home state doesn’t have such a plate, but Nancy Ellis, Community Relations Manager of Life Connection of Ohio, has [...]
Removing donor kidneys through the bellybutton
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Donors in the news, My story, Transplant innovations on July 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
That little innie or outie, the universal symbol of every single human’s original, life-giving connection to their mother’s corporal self: The belly button. We all have one. We never really think about it as having a purpose, other than maybe to hold a little dangly piercing on pop stars. And yet increasingly, transplant surgeons are [...]
Welcome, Transplant Games readers!
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Transplant Games on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow. Honestly, it’s about all I can think of to say about the amazing experience I just took part in this week. Wow. For all of you who were there, all 6,000 of you — the 1,500 athletes, the 159 living organ donors, the thousands of you who came in honor and remembrance of your [...]
Dispatch from the Transplant Games: Day Three (Random Pics)
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Transplant Games on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Watching the athletes today, there were several times where it was easy to forget that every single one of them has received a life-saving organ transplant: A heart, lungs, kidney, liver, bone marrow, or even combinations of these things. Some multiple times. Every single athlete, from the guy bowling high 200s to the tot running [...]
Dispatch from the Transplant Games: Day Three (Basketball)
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Transplant Games on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Joe’s Team Northwest not only made it to the Elite 8, but even went on to the Final Four, where in a hard-fought battle they lost the Bronze to a marvelous Team Illinois. Georgia took the Gold, and Michigan the silver.
Dispatch from the Transplant Games: Day Three (Track & Field)
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Transplant Games on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For me, this is the shot of the day. This wonderful woman from Pittsburgh didn’t finish first, second, or third in the women’s 1500-yard race, but she finished.
Afterwards she talked for a while with a fellow athlete who, she had just learned that day, had gone to her same high school.
Just like any track [...]
Dispatch from the Transplant Games: Day Two
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged My story, Transplant Games on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Okay, so it’s my blog, I get to do a little bragging. Joe did not, alas, “dominate in ping pong” as I might have previously predicted, thanks to Darren from Team Arizona, but his 3-on-3 co-ed basketball team has advanced to the Elite 8 in the tournament for the Gold! I believe this portrait says [...]
Dispatch from the Transplant Games: Opening Day
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged My story, Transplant Games on July 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ugh, I’m tired! It’s 1 a.m. and we just got back to the hotel after the long and emotional opening ceremonies (where I shook the hand of Larry Hagman, um, wow). I also got to meet two other Games MVPs (at least in my eyes). One was Chris Klug, who had the same disease as [...]
