Tag: "organ donation"
MTS Candlelight Memorial Celebration
Last night, hundreds of people filled the memorial park adjacent to the Mid-America Transplant Services (MTS) offices for the Candlelight Memorial Celebration. It was a beautiful night to remember and honor the selfless act of giving demonstrated by organ and tissue donors and their families. Before the ceremony, several musical performers took the stage, including [...]
Status Update: I’m an organ donor
Here’s some news that makes us want to hit the “Like” button… Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg this morning announced a partnership between Facebook and Donate Life America. The partnership is designed to raise awareness about the need for donors and to encourage people to sign up for their state’s organ donor registry. Just imagine if every Facebook user [...]
How to start saving lives today – MidAmerica Transplant Services tells you how
Editor’s note: This is the first in a seven part series on the donation process as submitted by Justin Phelps, a communications coordinator at Mid-America Transplant Services (MTS). He will guest blog periodically in 2012 to give our readers a better understanding of MTS and the services it provides. He may be reached at jphelps@mts-stl.org. You [...]
Dartmouth transplant surgeon talks life, death and donation
A new book looks at the line between life and death, and the author says that after researching and writing it, he still has questions about it. National Public Radio’s Terry Gross interviewed Dick Teresi, author of The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers — How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between [...]
MTS is one link in transplantation process
Editor’s note: Justin Phelps is a communications coordinator at Mid-America Transplant Services (MTS). He will guest blog periodically in 2012 to give our readers a better understanding of MTS and the services it provides. He may be reached at jphelps@mts-stl.org. First, we at Mid-America Transplant Services would like to thank our friends at Barnes-Jewish Hospital [...]
The best of transplant 2011 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
In the season of giving, as our gift to you, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite transplant stories from the Washington University- Barnes-Jewish Hospital Transplant Center in 2011. Enjoy these two for starters: First, the story of someone who gave the gift of life, and in doing so, got a gift of his own. From March, here’s the story [...]
Catching up with a blogger on the threshold of the OR and his new life
We recently ran across “Just Kidneying,” a blog described by its author, Jim McFarlin as ”A middle-aged man strives to come to grips with another organ that is letting him down, with faith and good humor. It’s Stage IV kidney failure as musical comedy.” It’s funny. It’s touching. It’s a well-written, warts-and-all view of life on dialysis and the [...]
A couple of transplants and cancer don’t faze Decatur-area woman
A lung transplant, a kidney transplant and a bout of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Sounds like the beginning to a very unfunny joke. But that’s Janice Early’s life. Janice is a 37-year-old Forsyth, IL, woman. Almost 20 years out from a double lung transplant for cystic fibrosis at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and 10 years out from a living donor kidney [...]
Merry Smith talks about Candlelight Memorial
Merry Smith, a program director with MidAmerica Transplant Services, talked with Randi Naughton of KTVI-TV this morning about the MTS Candlight Memorial Ceremony. About 600 people are expected to attend. Merry also talked about her experience as a mother who donated her son’s organs. Take a look: http://www.fox2now.com/news/morningshow/ktvi-donor-memorial-planned-for-tuesday-20110830,0,3766602.story -Kathryn Holleman
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