Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplants, tagged 2. Living organ donor blogs, Donor stories, Donors in the news, Inspiration, Living donor stories, Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplants, Spread the word on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jeffrey over at Transplant Alliance called the online community’s attention to a beautiful Web site called ellasliver.com. Ella Watson is a 25-year-old artist who somehow, remarkably, managed to survive biliary artesia as an infant and live relatively complication-free until she was 24. She now needs a liver transplant, and her family and friends are considering [...]
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Send your good vibes toward David, who is getting worked up to donate his liver to his uncle, Paul, who suffers from the same disease my brother did, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. David has started a blog to share his experiences — I’ve added a link to it to the “Living Donor Blogs” list on the [...]
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Since the point of this blog is to share information and experiences about living donation, from time to time I’ll reprise some of my favorite posts from Chopped Liver, the blog I wrote while I was going through the experience of being a living liver donor in late 2005/early 2006. This particular entry, written about [...]
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Hi, readers. Last night I cried myself to sleep. There you go – naked honesty. For reasons that confound me, infuriate me, depress me, and leave me raw, Joe is back in the hospital this week suffering from complications due to strictures and infections that won’t seem to leave him to live his life in [...]
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It is a small world, indeed. An inspiring woman, mom, and blogger right in my Minneapolis back yard is donating a kidney to her father in a couple of weeks, and she found the Greatest Gift Foundation’s blog through a blogger friend of a blogger friend who lives in England. I love the Web!
Meet Terri: [...]
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Some living donors become bloggers, like me, and some bloggers become living donors, like Conspicuous Chick, a great writer, rocker girl, and soon to be living kidney donor who’s blogging at http://sirencristy.blogspot.com/. She’s been talking to the world there since 2002, but now she’s interspersing fun variety content with great posts about her life pre-transplant. [...]
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