YOU HAVE THE POWER TO SAVE LIVES. PLEDGE AND REGISTER TODAY

Follow us to learn more about organ donation and our national efforts to raise awareness about the critical need for donated organs. We are finding inspiration in unexpected places.

BECAUSE ORGAN & TISSUE DONATION MATTERS

There are over 113,000 Americans waiting for a life-saving transplant. Registering takes only a few minutes. Please encourage your family, friends and colleagues to pledge the "gift of life" by signing up at your State's donor registry. Click HERE to learn how. Californians, please visit Donate Life California.

Our Pledge Life Memorial, "Celebrate Life...Remembrance". We are pledging to HONOR, remember and celebrate the lives of donors, transplant recipients, donation and transplant community members. Will you PLEDGE with us to do the same?
DL Life Logo April 27,2012 - - - - 113,953 AMERICANS ARE CANDIDATES ON THE UNOS TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST DL Life Logo 91,996 waiting for a kidney DL Life Logo 16,098 waiting for a liver DL Life Logo 1,269 waiting for a pancreasDL Life Logo 2,153 waiting for a Kidney-PancreasDL Life Logo 3,172 waiting for a heartDL Life Logo 1,632 waiting for a lungDL Life Logo 52 waiting for a heart-lungDL Life Logo 278 waiting for small bowelDL Life Logo One organ donor has the opportunity to save up to 8 lives DL Life Logo One tissue donor has the opportunity to save and -or enhance the lives of 50 or more individuals DL Life Logo You have the power to SAVE Lives by becoming an organ, eye and tissue donor, so what are you waiting for? To learn how to register click HEREDL Life Logo

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Transplant ordeal man urges others to give gift of life this Christmas

JMW Law Blog


By Susan Taylor @ Dec 20, 2011 in Medical Negligence
Susan Taylor
A JMW clinical negligence client, who developed cancer from a kidney he received as a transplant, is urging people to give organ donation registration as a present this Christmas.

Rob Law, 59, feels that despite having to go through chemotherapy after being given a kidney from a woman who had a rare form of blood cancer, he still believes in the system. Mr Law received the organ at Royal Liverpool Hospital on 26 November 2010, as he was suffering from kidney failure.

I am currently representing Mr Law, who is from New Ferry, Wirral, in a medical negligence (link to page) legal battle with the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust and NHS Blood and Transplant. Mr Law is seeking answers on how a cancerous kidney was able to slip through the net and be used in a transplant. However, he tells me that he still feels grateful for the kidney he received.

This is what Mr Law has to say on the issue:

"Twelve months ago I received an early Christmas present in the form of a new kidney. Even though it came with cancer, I will feel eternally grateful for the strength that the donor and her family showed in giving the gift of life.

"A donor card is an amazing present to give someone if you are struggling for ideas. There are thousands of people on the transplant list, and thousands more die each year waiting for donated organs to become available.”

Mr Law has shown an immense amount of dignity and courage throughout his ordeal. For him to now give his backing to the organ donation scheme, despite it causing him further health problems is highly commendable.

0 COMMENTS: