Second Chances

Today I read my friends blog and she had a post that really has me thinking. A woman that she met in the Clinic had a heart and kidney transplant 18 years ago and had got depressed and stopped taking her anti rejection medication. So she is now in need of  new organs. Do you believe she should get a second chance?


I have struggled my whole life just to maintain the little life functions I have left. I have had to take medication my whole life and even when I am sick of everything going on I stop and think...well, it's either I take tons of pills everyday or I have problems and am in the hospital or dead. I like the take tons of pills option. I know how hard it is being sick all the time and seeing others healthy and doing things you wish you could do. I even have pitty party days when I am just upset with everything going on...but I am only allowed 3 a year according to my grandma :) But never would I take a chance at a new life for granted. Not to mention the hurt the donor family is going through while I live with their loved ones organ inside of me. To me it is a very selfish thing and I do not understand how someone could be so careless. Not to mention the fact that there is thousands waiting for an organ and less than half of them even get one. So my answer is no, she does not deserve one but I also know if it is god's will...it will be done. So I have a heavy heart :(


Donation Facts:

• *More than 100,000 men, women and children currently need life-saving organ transplants.
• *Every 10 minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list.
• *An average of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant.
• *In 2009, there were 8,021 deceased organ donors and 6,610 living organ donors resulting in 28,465 organ transplants.
• *Last year, more than 42,000 grafts were made available for transplant by eye banks within the United States.
• *According to research, 98% of all adults have heard about organ donation and 86% have heard of tissue donation.
• 90% of Americans say they support donation, but only 30% know the essential steps to take to be a donor.

SO THE BIG QUESTION IS: 

ARE YOU AN ORGAN DONOR?

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