Organ Donor Program

[EsmeraldaX]

The organ donor program is a great thing.

 

[icelady]

So sorry for your loss. The organ donor program is wonderful. We lost a close family member and his organs were donated and since that time I have become an organ donor. Paulette

 

[minniepumpernickel]

I'm an organ donor, and so was my uncle. When he died a little girl got his eyes. I just found out that my aunt got a really nice note thanking her from the recipients parents. I thought that was the coolest thing!


So sorry for your loss

 

[ladytemptra3]

rae, you will always be in heart - as well as your little girl. I want to thank you for your encouragement. I hope to make a difference and to help others. I want to be a shoulder for people when they need it most.

 

[rae519]

Thank you all so very much for your lovely replies and support for this very wonderful program that touches all of us.

This past anniversary (10th) was exceptionally hard for me - maybe it was just the number having significance or maybe it was just that hormonal thing we all get - either way, it was very hard.
I went into a depression that lasted quite a while, but am starting to feel like myself again.

We can be "cerebral" about our faith and our loss, but it still hurts a lot to have part of our family gone - even though we "KNOW" she's in a better place.

One thing I want to say before this thread dies off, is that Kayla came into our lives when she was 5 weeks old. A very rude comment was made that she wasn't really our daughter so it probably wasn't hard for us - this was made after her death by someone who could and would never understand that she was OUR daughter.

So while you support the organ donor program - also think about bieng supportive to the adoption program, if not directly then indirectly. Attitude is everything!!!!

Much love and hugs to everyone, and all my thanks for your love and hugs,
Rae

 

[binny]

HI Rae, You are in the my thoughts today


You know the story about my dad who passed on ( promoted to Glory as I prefer to think of it ) while waiting for a heart.

They may take from me whatever they wish, I will have no use for it where Im going

 

[minniegirl88]

that reminds me that i wanted to sign my liscence. I definately want to donate my organs.

 

[sha_lyn]

Rea.... thanks again for sharing your story. No matter what anyone says she was just as much your child as if you had given birth to her. While her life was short, please know that she has touch so many people. I think she would be (is) very proud of you and your messsage about organ donation.

 

[rae519]

Originally posted by binny
HI Rae, You are in the my thoughts today


You know the story about my dad who passed on ( promoted to Glory as I prefer to think of it ) while waiting for a heart.

They may take from me whatever they wish, I will have no use for it where Im going

You just summed it all up, dear friend binny!!!
They have "graduated" to a new level!!!

I donated her clothes, toys, etc. to kids who needed them, why not her organs - she certainly wasn't going to need them where she was!!!

EXCELLENT point!!!!!



To sha_lyn - yes, she was mine as most adoptive parents feel about their children - there is no difference in how we raise children whether they are born under our hearts or in them!

L0VE to you all!!!!

Rae
Rae

 

[sha_lyn]

I feel the same way about organ donation. I was shocked to learn a few yrs ago that my mother is against it. She say it would to hard for her to think of someone walking around with "pieces" of a loved one. I asked her would she ask me to refuse an organ if one of my children needed one. He answer was of course no. I basically called her a hypocrite (but not so bluntly). I guess my feelings are is someone is against donation, then they should also be against receive an organ as well.

 

[binny]

Just in case some of you have not read this poem... it truly explains how I feel about the whole process....

God Bless.


To Remember Me - I will live forever
Robert N. Test

The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a mattress located in a hospital; busily occupied with the living and the dying. At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that, for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped.
When that happens, do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by the use of a machine. And don't call this my deathbed. Let it be called the bed of life, and let my body be taken from it to help others lead fuller lives.

Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby's face or love in the eyes of a woman.
Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless days of pain.

Give my blood to the teenager who was pulled from the wreckage of his car, so that he might live to see his grandchildren play.

Give my kidneys to the one who depends on a machine to exist from week to week.

Take my bones, every muscle, every fiber and nerve in my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk.

Explore every corner of my brain.

Take my cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that, someday a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of rain agianst her window.

Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the winds to help the flowers grow.

If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weakness and all prejudice against my fellow man.

Give my sins to the devil.

Give my soul to God.

If, by chance, you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you. If you do all I have asked, I will live forever.
Robert N. Test

 

[goofygirl]

For more info on organ donation in the Delaware valley area:


http://www.donors1.org/about/about.html

 

[rae519]

thnaks for the great contributions to this thread!!

sha_lyn - there was a family I knew personally who received a donation for one of their members - yet they refused to be organ donors.

Guess my gut feeling is "to each his own", but then again, what goes round, comes round........ My own Mother felt that they would "terminate" her early if they knew she was an organ donor, THAT IS JUST NOT TRUE!

Too many misconceptions about it exist, and if we can get facts to people, then we do it. We can't change the world, but we can try to talk to one person at a time!!!

Hugs,
Rae

 

[sha_lyn]

My own Mother felt that they would "terminate" her early if they knew she was an organ donor, THAT IS JUST NOT TRUE!

I have one friend who has told me in detail what was involved. Her family donated her mothers organs after a massive stroke that left her brain dead. The life support would have been cut off much earlier if they were not donating. However because they were donating, more test had to be done to insure she was brain dead, and then they started the matching process. Turned out only her eyes were useable due to damage from the storke. They donated some of her other organs for medical research.

 

[JVL1018]

I am so sorry. (
I have long made my desire to be an organ donor, should the worst happen, known to my family and have checked off the box on my license.

 

[rae519]

Sorry for your losses also, JVL1018 - but thank you for that beautiful quote about "horizon" - what mere words can convey as a powerful message!!!

Rae

 

[faithinkarma]

Bless you all

 

[chrissie123]

God bless to you all,,you are in our prayers xxx

 

[4greatboys]

I have told my family repeatedly if anything should happen to me I want to be an organ donor. They used to go by if you signed your license or not but now they ask the family.
I told my dh that my grandma (if she is still here when I go) would say no but I want my organs donated any.
I have even quizzed my kids so everyone will know should the occasion arise.