Friday, May 25, 2012

Double Lung Transplant Allows Judge to Continue Serving Her Community

Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Common Pleas Court Judge Nancy McDonnell is still serving the people in her community thanks to a double lung transplant. Hear her story in the video embedded below or by clicking here.

 

For more information about organ and tissue donation or to register as an organ and tissue donor where you live, visit our website by clicking here.

Read more : NewsNet5.com article titled "Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Nancy McDonnell Grateful for Organ Transplant"
Enhanced by Zemanta

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Son Saves Mother

Bile duct and pancreas 1. Bile ducts: :2. Intr...
Bile duct and pancreas 1. Bile ducts: :2. Intrahepatic bile ducts :3. Left and right hepatic ducts :4. Common hepatic duct :5. Cystic duct :6. Common bile duct :7. Ampulla of Vater :8. Major duodenal papilla 9. Gallbladder 10-11. Right and left lobes of liver 12. Spleen 13. Esophagus 14. Stomach 15. Duodenum 16. Jejunum 17. Pancreas: :18. Accessory pancreatic duct :19. Pancreatic duct 20-21: Right and left kidneys Español: Vías biliares y pancreas Català: Vies biliars i pàncrees (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Shay Segura received some bad news in 1999 after donating blood. She learned that she had primary biliary cirrhosis, or PBC. The disease destroys the bile ducts of the liver. The disease is slow in developing but normally leads to a person's liver shutting down. Shay's only hope was a liver transplant, and she received one from her own son.

Shay first started the process of getting on the national transplant waiting list. However, her doctor told her that the wait would likely be too long, and she would die. It was recommended that she consider, and try to find, a suitable living donor. Her son, Bryan Cesario, stepped up to the plate to help his mom. He said, "I wanted to do it when I was 16 but you have to be 18." Shay didn't want him to do it, but he insisted. Both are now doing well and want people to know that living donation is an option for people needing liver transplants. In a living donor liver transplant, either the right or left lobe of the donor's liver is removed from the donor and then transplanted into the recipient. Then, the liver will regenerate itself within the donor in about two months.

For more information about organ and tissue donation and how you can register as a donor in the state where you live, please visit the Tennessee Organ Donation Foundation's website by clicking here.

Read more : publeochieftain.co.newsmemory.com article titled "I'm Giving You My Liver and That's It"
Enhanced by Zemanta

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Facebook Launches "Organ Donor" Status on Timeline

Facebook recently launched a new tool that is sure to help promote organ and tissue donation. Furthermore, it's a convenient way to let family and friends know that you have made the conscientious decision to help save and improve lives. If there is a downside to the new tool, it's the fact that it's only available on the new "Timeline" format. If you have not upgraded to "Timeline," you cannot use the "Organ Donor" tool.

Embedded below is a video containing instructions on how to set your Facebook "Timeline" status to "Organ Donor." Furthermore, you can also watch the instructional video, an ABC News story about the launch, and personal testimonies about organ and tissue donation, by clicking here.

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

Read more : abcnews.go.com article titled "ABC News Exclusive : New Facebook Tool Helps Organ Donors Share Life"
Enhanced by Zemanta