Today is the beginning of DonateLife Week 2017… a week that is all about promoting organ and tissue donation, with the aim of increasing donation levels and transplantation outcomes… Currently, there are more than 1,400 Australians and their families are today waiting for a life-saving transplant. My husband was once one of those waiting…he waited […]
Today marks five years since my husband had his life saving liver transplant…five years….can’t believe how quickly they have flown. Especially as the years leading up to that day went so slowly…the fourteen months of being on the waiting list seemed to stretch for a life time. This day five years ago started like many […]
Yesterday was my husband’s 45th birthday…birthdays are always a good reason to celebrate but for us, each one is now a wonderful gift. Because when he turned 40, life was looking rather bleak…he was so sick with end stage liver disease and every day was a struggle. He was bright yellow…a walking skeleton…and our days […]
Last Sunday, we attended the DonateLife Remembrance Service…the fifth since my husband had his liver transplant. DonateLife Victoria holds this Service annually to honor the donors and their families, and for recipients and their loved ones to give thanks. And it is one event on our calendar that we always want to attend because it […]
Please note: the following views are ours, based on our own experiences. This post was rather difficult to write as we don’t want to offend or upset anyone…please be assured it is just based on what we observed and felt. I always thought that organ donation was a positive process…something good coming from an event […]
As someone who knows what it is like to be stuck on a waiting list for a transplant, the news that 2016 was a record year for organ donation is just fantastic. Thanks to the generosity of 503 deceased organ donors and their families, a record 1,448 Australians were given a second chance in life […]
Today is DonateLife Thank You Day (20th November 2016). This is a day to say thank you to all the donors and their loved ones for giving the gift of life…and it is a day that is very important to us. Because organ donation saved my husband’s life…it is as simple as that… If a […]
And just like that, another DonateLife Week has flown past! Five years ago or so, we really had little knowledge of just how amazing organ and tissue donation is, and all the work that goes on behind the scenes to make it all happen. Fast forward to today, and we are honoured to play albeit […]