This story comes from Washington DC as President Bush proclaimed April as National Donate Life month…. and also from one of the loyalists here on the blog…..Patty. She passed along this information and I couldn’t agree more with her efforts and others like her. For example… Did you know…
One Donor can . . .
…Save or enhance the lives of more than 50 people.
…Donate kidneys to free two people from dialysis treatments.
…Give sight to two people by donating corneas.
…Donate bone to help repair injured bones and joints.
It is important to opt for the donor choice while signing your driver’s license (in California put on a pink sticker) or signing up for your state’s donor registry. Also, let your wishes be known, tell your family because the will make the final decision. None of us want to ever face this, I hope to be around for a long time. But if that time does come, think about all the people and their families who will get a new lease, or look at life. Patty tells me they have been a donor family not once, but twice. My thoughts and prayers are with them. As she said in an e-mail to me “Peoples lives can be saved, even in the loss of someone very precious.”
We first covered Operation Gratitude a long while back as volunteers filled care packages here in Southern California meant for soldiers in Iraq.
