Organ Donation and Transplant Blog

2nd Chance at Life: The Life Quest

by Shannon on April 24, 2012

Before an organ transplant, when you’re body is frail and you don’t know if you are going to live or die, your main goal is to stay alive long enough to get that transplant. Every moment it is about surviving long enough to witness the miracle of organ donation in your life and to come [...]

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To Love Beyond Illness

March 23, 2012

I know. I had pledged to take a sabbatical from this blog. I thought there was nothing left to say. I felt as though I had no more to share with others about organ donation and transplant awareness. That was, until a few moments ago, when a friend shared a photo on Facebook of someone [...]

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My Long-Term Angel Cove Sabbatical

October 25, 2011

As of this posting, I will be on long-term sabbatical from the Angel Cove Transplant Blog. Over the last year, I’ve flip-flopped back and forth on whether or not to keep this blog up and running. It’s one thing to write from the heart but an entirely different thing to write because you feel like [...]

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Swim: A Memoir of Survival (Book Review)

August 9, 2011

Diving headfirst into the harshness of disease and the triumph of the miracle of life, double heart and kidney transplant survivor Bill Coon takes you along as he swims the choppy waters of his own life in his book Swim: A Memoir of Survival. In 1989, Bill Coon was born with a congenital heart defect. [...]

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Increased Coughing and the CF Smell

August 5, 2011

When you’ve lived around someone with an illness as long as I have, you start to learn the subtle changes in that person that flag a small alarm in the back of your head. It can be a small change in behavior or the slight discoloration of skin. Sometimes it can even be a feeling [...]

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Ask Me About My Living Kidney Donation

June 1, 2011

Would you give of yourself? When you think about giving all that you have, at what end would you help another living human being? The selfless act of becoming a living organ donor is not common enough nor is the act of continuing to raise organ donor awareness after the fact. But to some, the [...]

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Beware Change for the Sake of Change

May 9, 2011

Do you ever find yourself desperately wanting a change in your life? This need for change can be as simple as rearranging the furniture in your house or as complex as moving to an entirely new country. Change is the only constant in life and change is good. Well, that is only if you aren’t [...]