OrgansandU

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OrgansandU

Organ and Tissue Donation

More needs to be done

Nova Scotia Deemed Consent

A Great Day

Our ways to get more donors

Be a blood donor

Rose

A beating heart

The Financing of OrgansandU

OrgansandU

OrgansandU will be an organization where we use all ethically acceptable means to increase organ donations. We will be the organization where people turn to, to when they need help to get their life changing organ. We will be the voice for many people who are looking to find an organ.

It is time for U to make sure ur organs are available when U have no use for them. Perhaps even become a live donor. U will realize how great a feeling it is knowing U have saved some one’s life.   

There is a tremendous need for organs for transplant. The list of people needing organs is large: it sometimes takes years to get much needed organ. Many people's health declines so drastically while waiting for an organ that they are taken off the waiting list. Their health has deteriorated to the point that the organ is unlikely to save them, many people die awaiting an organ.

In Canada by the end of 2019, 4419 people were awaiting a transplant and 250 people died.

Organ and Tissue Donation: The Facts from beadonor.ca

In Ontario, in 2018 there were over 1,500 people waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. This is their only treatment option, and every 3 days someone will die because they did not get their transplant in time.

But U can help. When U register ur consent for organ and tissue donation, U let those waiting know that U would help them if U could.

• One donor can save up to 8 lives through organ donation and enhance the lives of up to 75 more through the gift of tissue.
• Age alone does not disqualify someone from becoming a donor. The oldest organ donor was over 90 and the oldest tissue donor was over 100. There's always potential to be a donor; it shouldn't stop U from registering.
• Ur current or past medical history does not prevent U from registering to be a donor. Individuals with serious illnesses can, sometimes, be organ and/or tissue donors. Each potential donor is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
• All major religions support organ and tissue donation, or respect an individual's choice.
• Organ and tissue donation does not impact funeral plans. An open casket funeral is possible.

Learn more about organ and tissue donation by browsing our FAQs, or take action today.

Register ur consent for organ and tissue donation and talk to ur family about ur wishes.

According to Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) which tracks the statistics 200 people receive heart transplants every year in Canada. The odds of cardiac failure turning to a meet-cure are astronomically low- patients are more likely to die waiting for the transplant, as 26 of them did in 2016.

 “Nearly every province and territory has a registry of volunteer organ donors. People need to be encouraged to sign up in their area. Having a serious illness (some types of cancers, for example) doesn't disqualify U from being a donor. Neither does age: the oldest organ donor on record was 92. We look at physiological age, not chronological age, says Ed Ferre, the provincial operations director for British Columbia Transplant. We have people in their 60's, 70's and 80's who are in great health, and their organs, too. (Reader's Digest, Love on a Transplant List-By Susan Peters)

More needs to be done

We need to do more to help people in need get much needed organs. One way to get more organ donors is to pass legislation where like in Spain U are automatically registered as a potential donor at birth, it is up to the parents or the potential donor to remove him or herself from the donor list. U should have ur donor information linked to ur Health Card like Ontario, Canada does. Donor compatibility information should be programmed into ur Health Card once it is determined. This should be done at an early age. 

Nova Scotia 1^st in Canada for Deemed Consent

Changes to organ and tissue donation

On 18 January 2021, the law for organ and tissue donation is changing in Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia Human Organ and Tissue Donation Act will make it possible for more Nova Scotians to donate their organs and tissues.

Registering ur decision

U can register ur decision to be a donor and donate all or some of ur organs and tissues after death. If U don’t want to donate ur organs and tissues when the legislation changes on 18 January 2021, U can opt out before the changes take effect.

Whatever U choose, let the people in ur life know ur decision to ensure it is honored. Families will continue to be consulted about their loved ones' wishes regarding organ and tissue donation.

Starting on 18 January 2021, if U don't register ur donation decision and U are eligible, U will be seen as having consented to organ and tissue donation after death. This is called ‘deemed consent’ under the new Human Organ and Tissue Donation Act.

Unless U opt out U will be a presumed donor for everyone over 19 years of age.

A Great Day

What a great day for those needing organs in Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia has done something that will ensure that many more people will be getting life saving organs. We can only hope that other provinces will soon follow our lead. Nova Scotia should convince other provinces and even states to do the right thing and bring in deemed consent. Politicians from around the world should be convincing their people accept deemed consent as the moral way to go.

OrgansandU would list the jurisdictions that have deemed consent and praise these jurisdictions for doing so. We would use a variety of means to get governments to adopt legislation that would make deemed consent law. We would have national advertising campaigns questioning why governments have not passed deemed consent legislation.

Millions would be saved around the world because money would not have to be wasted treating people whose health is deteriorating because they are waiting too long to get organs that will save their lives and many even die while they are waiting.

Our ways to get more Donors

Parents should talk to their children at an early age about the importance of becoming a donor. When their offspring become adults, perhaps 16 then the decision to donate organs would come from the organ donor. At this point U are much more likely to have an adult donor if organ donation has already been adapted as a way of life. Ur donor information should also be linked to ur driver's license once U get one, to make it easier and more accountable.

OrgansandU will give those needing a transplant a voice and portray potential organ recipients in the best possible light. We get to know the person by the information they have loaded on to our site. They could load onto our site pictures, video and text about themselves and their families. They could put anything on our OrgansandU site that is will help them get a donor if it is legal and within acceptable social norms. There will be limits on how much information each person who is awaiting organs can load on our site. We will give advice about what we feel would be most beneficial to get a much-needed organ. OrgansandU will screen the information before it is posted on our website. The people that will have their stories told first will be the most critical.

We will get our message out through all types of media; we will try to get the media to volunteer space on their broadcasts to promote organ donation as a public service. In most cases we will supply them with material to air. We will get the backing of prominent people in the film and sports industries, business and from whomever we feel could help us.

We want OrgansandU to be international in scope with our websites reflecting the geographical area that U are in. Our websites will have features of potential organ recipients from any given country on our cover pages. The people requiring organ donations will be linked to the area they are in, for instance a state or province.

At the very least if it is okay with the person needing an organ donation, we will have them listed on our site. They will be listed in categories according to the organ they require. I If a U need a kidney ur name will be found in a kidney list.

In certain circumstances in small countries potential donors could be found from outside the country they live in.

OrganandU will do research and will develop an organization that will attract people to our organization where they will find out anything, they need to know about people who need organs and how they can become donors. If they want to be a donor and they are the right donor type, they will be able to contact OrgansandU and put in their preference who they want to donate to. This would mainly be done for those who want to be living donors. OrgansandU will try to get these people to sign up for being future donators if they are unable to give to the person that they are interested in. We will strive to use these potential donors to help someone else who they are compatible with. Through tests we will know who these potential donors will be able to donate their organs to.

Live donors could be so moved by the profiles of those in need they could possibly donate an organ like a kidney or part of their liver to a person they see on our website.

If the public, including potential donors, could see and hear about the plight of people needing organs people are more likely to have made arrangements to become donors.

People who have benefited from organ transplants could tell their stories. Success stories would inspire many to give. Doctors could educate the public about the processes of being a donor live or deceased. U will be able to watch and look at pictures of surgeries involving organ donation.

Many live donors could tell their stories about what they went through being an organ donor or possibly telling us how good it felt to help someone in need. In our opinion there would be nothing more pleasing to our eyes and ears than to have a donor socializing with the person who has received their organ. We will inundate OrgansandU with inspiring stories, pictures and videos of these memorable events. We will encourage and try to enable recipients of organs to get to know the people who gave them their organs in the case of living donors. In the case of deceased donors, we will encourage relationships with their families and friends. There will be standardized forms that are signed by donors that determine whether their identities will be shared. Both parties must be in agreement. On that form there will be a space to check whether the donor recipient wants to meet family members of the donor. This information could possibly be linked to the donors Health Card and/or driver's license.

We believe that statistics should be done yearly in all countries to determine the number of donors per capita and what percent of people need organs are getting them. These statistics should also be broken down to each type of organ that is needed. Statistics should be done for each province or state and provinces or states that are low in per capita donations should be encouraged to motivate their citizens to donate more. Perhaps there should even be challenges state to state and province to province and a donor award per nation for the highest per capita donors. It should be something a state or province would be proud of achieving. Countries could also challenge each other.

What OrgansandU wants to achieve is to make organ donations so socially acceptable that people would wonder why a person has not registered themselves to donate their organs. Why wouldn't U donate ur organs?

As OrgansandU will try to resolve problems concerning organ donations at an international level we will share our techniques to any country that is interested. We want all aspects of organ donation to be taught to people around Ourearth, from donors, donor recipients to the people that will do the surgeries. We need to give whoever needs an organ a fighting chance for survival. We must motivate more people to give and train more people to do the surgeries.  As mentioned above organ related statistics should be kept for all countries and the world should be brought up to an International Standard that possibly OrgansandU might help set the benchmarks. 

Be a Blood Donor

Blood Donation needs to be mentioned on our OrgansandU website. Blood may not be an organ, but it keeps our organs going and it is essential for life. The chances are U may need a blood transfusion when U are getting an organ is good.

There is a constant need for blood or blood products. It can take many donors to save a person's life. In some case it can take up to 50 donors to save a life. Only 1 of every two Canadians is eligible to donate. 52% of Canadians say that they or a family member have needed blood or blood products. This was for surgery or medical treatment.

In Canada U can call 1 888 2 Donate or 1888 236 6283. Please help save a live and donate as soon as U are able.

Rose

Rose is not the real name of the person this story is about. The family of Rose is still suffering from their loss and finds it hard to talk about her, so they prefer that I do not use her name.

On July 2, 1985 I was hiking with my girlfriend at Truro, Nova Scotia's Victoria Park. It was a nice sunny day and there were a lot people at the park. My girlfriend and I met 15-year-old Rose and her friend in the parking lot. Rose was an attractive girl with beautiful brown eyes, and they sparkled when she was happy, so they sparkled continuously.

I thought it odd to see Rose without family members around her, this was unique. Rose introduced us to her friend. Rose was excited that her friend had just got her license and that night was the: “Girls night out”.  They were going out driving so Rose was excited and grinning from ear to ear.

Late that night the phone rang at my house and I could hear dad talking on the phone. I got up and knocked on mom and dad's bedroom door. Dad came to the door and said: “Rose was in a car accident and she may not live.”

The next day we were told that Rose was on Life Support and her condition was grave. Eventually it became apparent that Rose had severe brain damage and was only being kept alive by artificial means, her brain was no longer functioning. Rose's father and her mother with heavy hearts knowing there was no hope for recovery allowed Rose's life support to be removed on July 3, 1985.

Awhile later mom and dad and I went to my grandmother's (Nan’s) place to see why Rose's body had not arrived for the morning funeral home visitation.

Rose's mother was on the phone talking to someone about Rose. The reason why Rose had not arrived was because they had to find glass eyes for Rose because her eyes were donated. When I heard this, I felt how great it was that those beautiful eyes would help someone else to see. I realized too that if she donated her eyes, there would be other parts of Rose living on in someone else.

Rose was a lovely, delightful, and giving person who liked to cook and would say to my mother: “Try this ... ...”  Rose and I liked each other a lot so when we saw each other it was a big deal. She liked that I was into dancing.  My family remembers Rose singing Tom T. Halls Sneaky Snake chorus, which went like this:

Sneaky Snake went a dancing, wiggling and a hissing.

Sneaky Snake goes a dancing, giggling and a hissing.

I don't like old Sneaky Snake he laughs so much you see.

When he goes wiggling through the grass it tickles his underneath.

Rose also liked John Anderson's: “Swinging”.  She was big into music especially as a teen. She was really into Bryan Adams. I used to joke with her about how much she loved Bryan. She did not deny that love for Bryan Adams. Rose was born in 1969, so she liked Summer of 69 and Bryan's other classics like: Straight from the Heart, Run to You and All for Love. If she had been around in the 90's Rose would have been proud of Bryan Adams singing All for Love with Rod Stewart and Sting. Rose followed music like most teenagers her age; she had posters of Bryan and other musicians on her wall. Rose was gregarious always laughing and a pleasure to be around. She was a very good student, really liked by her teachers and classmates. Sometimes she would laugh so hard her upper body would rock back and forth.

Rose's mother and father discussed with all of their children about them becoming organ donors if they were to die. The conversations occurred at an age when death should be the furthest from ur mind. Rose cared so much about others and their misfortunes that she felt in her death she could make a difference. Her parents remembered the conversations. Soon after the car accident it was evident that Rose's brain was no longer functioning, and Rose was being kept alive by artificial means. Doctors realizing there was no hope of Rose regaining consciousness, approached Rose's parents about her being an organ donor. They knew that Rose would want this, and her life would impact others in such a loving way. Rose always wanted people to be happy. She would feel bad for those who suffered because there was a shortage of organ donors. In death she had no use for the parts of her that meant so much to the living.

Rose's parents were devastated losing a child they loved so much, their only daughter. For years until they moved Rose's bedroom remained untouched. They got some solace knowing that parts of Rose would live on in other people. A while after Rose's death Rose's mom talked about an article, she had read in the Chronicle Herald, a newspaper from Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was a moving story about a mother who had received a liver, it might be that Rose's liver. Rose's parents wondered about other people Rose would have helped. The thought that Rose's beautiful eyes could be seen in someone else intrigued her mother.

Rose's dad has been dead for over 15 years. Rose's Mom is now in her eighties. She said: “I am getting older, but it is not getting easier. I think about her when I get up and when I go to bed.” “We made the right choice” is what she said about her and her husband giving the go ahead for Rose's organs to be donated.

I hope this story about such a precious soul as Rose will inspire others to become donors.

A Beating Heart- CTV News December 9, 2020

Two families were brought together because of a life saving transplant. Carol and Jim Jimmerson heard their son’s heartbeat inside Kennedy Ngungutau. The news showed Carol and Jim listening to Kennedy’s heartbeat with a stethoscope. They could hear their son Jacob’s heart beating. Jim said:” I cried so much that was our son, we want his heart to work well for Kennedy. Provide him a great life “. Their 25-year-old son Jacob died a year ago from a drug overdose. His heart was a match for Kennedy who was on a heart transplant waiting list.

Kennedy said:” He gave me a second chance of life able to continue on and spread positivity”. Kennedy said he plans on becoming a cardiac transplant nurse.   

The Financing of OrgansandU

The financing will probably be arranged by the philanthropist(s) who will be chosen after they contact us via the GET INVOLVED button.

Our philanthropist(s) could consider this- OrgansandU can have a business plan and then go to corporations, and governments (we would reduce the costs associated with people requiring organs), have various fundraisers, donors like U, the top 10 billionaires (see thetop10andU.com), other wealthy people, foundations, money from our possible new charity and other potential sources. We could have an endless number of well-known people supporting us in many ways. Anyone or anything that supports us would be highly regarded.

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