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Bonner, Theodore R — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:42:49 GMT

Organ & Tissue Donation

Gift of Life
Gift of Sight

TO REMEMBER ME

Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby's face or love in the eyes of a woman.

Give my blood to the teen-ager who was pulled from the wreckage of his car, so that he might live to see his grandchildren play.

Give my kidneys to one who depends on a machine to exist from week to week.

Take my bones, every muscle, every fiber and nerve in my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk.

If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weaknesses and all prejudice against my fellow man.

Give my sins to the devil.

Give my soul to God.

If, by chance, you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you. If you do all I have asked I will live forever.

ROBERT N. TEST

To sign up on the
Michigan Organ Donor Registry,
call (800) 482-4881

For more information about eye and
tissue donation email us at:
robb@michiganeyebank.org

Thank You!

The Donor Registry

Bonner, Theodore R — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:00:53 GMT

Help us Bring Organ & Tissue Donation into the Light

The Donor Registry

The Michigan Organ Donor Registry is a means of making your wishes known that you want to be an organ and tissue donor.

To be sure you are on the Michigan Organ Donor Registry, you should have a red heart sticker on the front of your driver's license or state I.D. Other means of expressing your wishes are to include donor information your Living Will or Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care. However, these items are not always immediately available. Therefore, the Michigan Organ Donor Registry is a practical means to ensure that your donation wishes, at the time of death, are
known.

Anatomical Study

This donor registry does not include the donation of your whole body for anatomical study. This must be done with the medical school of you choice.

Michigan Organ
Donor Registry
1-800-482-4881

Frequently Asked Questions

Bonner, Theodore R — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:56:28 GMT

Frequently Asked Questions -

Who can become a donor?
People of all ages and medical histories should consider themselves potential organ, tissue and eye donors.Your medical condition at the time of death will determine what can be donated. Medical criteria changes regularly.

Because of the critical need for more transplantable organs, there is also a growing number of living donors. Living donation can include a kidney, part of a lung or a section of a liver. For more information on living organ donation, visit our Resources/Links.

Why donate?
Almost 100,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant in the United States. Your decision to donate your organs can save the lives of up to eight people, and directly improve the lives of up to 50 people through tissue donation. After an organ or tissue transplant, people can return to work, school and their family -- all because an unknown hero gave them the gift of life.

How do I express my wish to become an
organ, tissue and eye donor?

1. Fill out the Michigan Organ Donor Registry form.
2. Once received, the Michigan Secretary of State will mail you
a Donor sticker to place on the front of your driver's license or state ID.

What is the Michigan Organ Donor Registry?
The registry is a confidential, 24 hours a day, computerized database that documents your wish to become an organ, tissue and eye donor.

How do I confirm that I am registered?
If you already have the Donor designation on the front of your driver's license or state ID, you are registered. If not, you will need to register by filling out the Michigan Organ Donor Registry form.

What if I am already on the Michigan Organ Donor Registry?

You must sign up again to receive the Donor sticker for your driver's license or state ID.

Can I indicate specific organs and/or tissues for donation?
No, because medical technology advancements, the types of organs and tissues used for transplantation and research may change. It is best to share specific organs and/or tissues for donation with family and/or your patient advocate.

Why is it important to register my wish to become a donor?
Upon every hospital death, Gift of Life Michigan is notified. Having your donor registry form on file helps to ensure that your decision to become a donor is carried out. Even when you sign the donor registry it is ESSENTIAL THAT YOUR FAMILY KNOWS your wishes.

Will doctors work as hard to save my life if they know I am an organ, tissue and eye donor?
Yes. Every effort is made to save your life before donation is considered. By law, the medical team treating you must be seperate from the transplant team.

Are there any costs to my family?
No. It costs nothing to donate organs or tissues, and no costs associated with the donation are passed on to the donor's family or estate.

Can normal funeral arrangements be made?
Yes. Donation does not interfere with having a funeral, including open casket services.

Will my religion approve of donation?
Most major religions approve of organ, tissue and eye donation, and consider donation one of the highest acts of compassion and generosity. For a list of specific religious organizations and their positions on donation, click here.

Who is Gift of Life Michigan?
Gift of Life Michigan is a full service organ and tissue recovery organization that acts as the intermediary between donors, physicians and hospital staff. Gift of Life, in collaboration with the Michigan Eye-Bank, provides all services necessary for organ, tissue and eye donation.

Can I donate money to support programs that encourage residents to sign up on the Michigan Organ Donor Registry?
Yes. Donate to the Michigan Organ and Tissue Donation Education Fund.
Click here for more information.

I’m under 18. Can I be a donor?
People of all ages should consider themselves potential organ, tissue and eye donors. You should sign up on the Michigan Organ Donor Registry to have your wishes stored in our confidential database. If you are a minor, however, your signed donor registry cannot be used as a document of first person consent.

If you are a minor, however, your signed donor registry cannot be used as a document of first person consent. You always need to talk to your family to tell them of your decision. Use our convenient e-postcard links below to help start the conversation.

The Need is Critical

Bonner, Theodore R — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:54:38 GMT

Need for Organ and Tissue Donation

In Michigan, more than 3,000 people are in need of a life-saving organ transplant. Nationwide, more than 100,000 people face that same dire need. Many, many more also await life-enhancing tissue and cornea transplants. Organ and tissue transplantation is a routine practice that can dramatically improve -- and even save -- the lives of those suffering from vital organ failure, or those suffering from bone defects, burns and blindness. Given this second chance, transplant recipients return to normal, productive lives.

IMPROVED surgical techniques and new anti-rejection drugs now permit successful transplantation of organs and tissues, such as heart, lung, kidney, liver, pancreas, cornea, bone, skin and other soft tissues.

For many diseases, organ transplantation is the only accepted medical treatment to offer a chance of survival.

Heart and liver donations are a matter of immediate life and death. Donated kidneys eliminate weekly dialysis treatments. A donated pancreas may "cure" someone's diabetes. Donated eyes not only provide corneas for sight-restoring corneal transplantations but also vital eye tissue for other surgical procedures and for research into blinding eye disorders.

Bone transplants may avert a need for amputation; skin donations save the lives of severe burn victims. State, regional and national computerized networks keep track of potential recipients.

Transplant recipients are selected on the basis of medical criteria, urgency of need and length of waiting time.

We need a strong donor program. Anyone may be a candidate for a transplant in the future, perhaps a member of your own family.

Help spread the "gift of life" by being an organ and tissue donor. Sign up on the Michigan Organ Donor Registry at www.giftoflifemichigan.org; you'll receive a heart sticker for your driver's license or state I.D. card to demonstrate your decision to give so that others may live.

The Story of Brian

Bonner, Theodore R — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:52:01 GMT

The Story of Brian

The death of someone we love is one of the hardest things we will ever have to face. In the consuming grief which follows, it is difficult to imagine that anything positive could result.

Consider the case of Brian, a seventeen-year old who loved baseball and his 10-speed bicycle. One evening last spring Brian was struck by a car while riding home from his high school. He was rushed to the emergency room with severe head injuries.

Emergency surgery was performed during the night but Brian was finally declared "brain dead." Brain death is a condition in which all indications of brain function have permanently ceased. With the use of a machine called a respirator breathing was mechanically maintained and his heart continued to beat. Brian's parents and older brother were grief-stricken and in a state of shock.

But Brian's story does not end here. His nurse in the Intensive Care Unit knew that everything possible had been done to save Brian's life. She huddled with the organ procurement organization to discuss with Brian's family the option of donating Brian's healthy organs and tissues to others in great need. Both mother and father agreed. The thought that good would happen to others gave them a large measure of comfort.

Brian's parents signed the permission form. Within hours skilled surgical teams removed Brian's organs and tissues and sped them on to waiting recipients. Brian's heart went to a 35-year-old father of two. Brian's kidneys went to a teacher who had been on dialysis for 5 years; the other kidney went to a young wife and mother of three youngsters.

Brian's eyes were removed so that his corneas could restore sight to two blind people. His donated skin helped save the life of a severely burned baby. Bone form Brian's legs and hips were removed so that a 14-year-old boy would not have to undergo amputation of a leg due to bone cancer and so that another child's severely deformed face could be reconstructed by a plastic surgeon.

From this single tragedy sprung new life, new health, new hope for nine of Brian's fellow humans and for nine American families.

To sign up on the Michigan Organ Donor Registry, call (800) 482-4881

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Bonner, Theodore R — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:42:49 GMT

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