Organ Donation and Transplant Blog

My Long-Term Angel Cove Sabbatical

by Shannon on 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 [...]

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 [...]

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The Heart of Angel Cove

April 27, 2011

Upon my couch I had started to think about where this blog is going and where it has been. At once, the Angel Cove Transplant Blog served as a means to communicate with friends and family about my husband’s health prior to and after his miracle double-lung transplant. As we come upon the 7th year [...]

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Is an Organ Donation Opt-Out System Ethical?

March 29, 2011

Organ donation has always been a very personal topic and many families would rather never think about a time when their loved one may die, let alone talk openly about whether they want to donate their organs or not. Unfortunately, many wait until the hospital’s organ procurement department ask them directly – just as their [...]