Here’s a great way to spend 60 seconds of your time between now and next Monday, September 1: Support this terrific project that organ donation hero Lyn has pitched to American Express’ annual “Members Project” grant contest. Each year Amex asks, “If you had a chance, how would you make a real difference?” So far this [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Let’s get a million $$ for organ donation!
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Uncategorized, tagged Living organ donation, Organ donation, Spread the word, How you can help on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Greatest Gift Foundation gets “bona fide”
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Foundation activities, Living organ donation on August 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Since we first launched the Greatest Gift Foundation in October 2007, I’ve been doing what I can to get started on the good work we envision it can do. We held our first big fundraiser, we rocked the Transplant Games, I’ve talked to living donor/transplant care coordinators at several hospitals around the country, we’ve connected several [...]
A quote for today
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Quotes, Inspiration on August 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Searches that bring you closer to me
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged My story, Living organ donation, Surgeons we love, Self-reflection on August 22, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I don’t want to intimidate anyone by sharing this, but WordPress lets me see in my management dashboard page the search terms people used to successfully find and link to this blog. Usually it’s stuff you would expect, like “living organ donor” or “kidney donor blogs,” or topical things like “Transplant Games.” Sometimes it’s something [...]
Breaking news! Story at 5….
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Donors in the news, Transplant events on August 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yours truly gets to hob nob with local TV meteorologist It-Guy (and oh-so cutie) Sven Sundgaard in the rooftop garden set for the KARE-11 news 5 p.m. broadcast today (Friday).
It’s not a pointless garden party — I’m there on a mission! I and a few colleagues from the American Liver Foundation get a brief moment to promote our local chapter’s [...]
One big happy organ swap in NYC
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Altruistic donation, Donors in the news, Living organ donation, Non-directed donation, Paired exchanges, Transplant innovations on August 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I found a nice quote of unknown origin online today: “Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.” It’s reminiscent of the less elegant saying ”what goes around comes around,” or the Mother Goose-y idiom ”one good turn deserves another.” All worthy (but probably woefully inadequate) ways of putting into mere words the glorious sentiment that eight people [...]
You mean it grows BACK?!?
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Uncategorized, tagged Living organ donation, My story on August 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’m not sure how this happens in a country where kids graduate high school unable to do simple arithmetic, but it seems the American public has a general awareness that the human body has two kidneys but needs only one to survive. So, it seems, do they know that the body requires a liver to live. [...]
A quote for the day
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Inspiration, Quotes on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I received this quote in a greeting card recently. It’s a downright lovely string of words, and so applicable to what living organ donors do to inspire the people around them.
“A life abundant in spirit ignites a spark in others.”
