In case I haven’t mentioned this in a while, I love my brother. Joe was recently back in the hospital with an infection for a brief stay, and took the time to mail me the day’s menu, as a nod to our memories of the marvelous food we had back when we were occupying nearby [...]
Posts Tagged ‘My story’
A living donor bonus: homemade salisbury steak!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hospital food, My story, Organ donation on March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The peaceful calm of being understood
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged 1. Living organ donor resources, My story, Organ donation on November 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Long before I became a living donor for my brother (years before we even knew he had a disease arising within him), I began what has become a longtime struggle with chronic depression. Thanks to amazing family and friends, a very talented and caring therapist, and the well-timed, cautious application of pharmaceuticals, I have managed [...]
Chopped and unchopped: The naked before and after photos
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged 2. Living organ donor blogs, Living organ donation, My story, Organ donation, Organ transplants on October 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Emotional and thankful in Quebec
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Living organ donation, My story on September 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am bowled over with emotion tonight. Writing this from a corporate meeting in Tremblant, Quebec, alone after an evening out with co-workers, suppliers and clients, I am overcome with a thousand feelings and aware, as ever, of how small a community I have to talk to about the thoughts surging through me. It reminds [...]
Searches that bring you closer to me
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Living organ donation, My story, Self-reflection, Surgeons we love 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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
