Beauty’s only skin deep… but a donor’s skin can turn a ruined life around
IF SOMEONE asked you the difference between organ and tissue donation would you be able to answer them? The concept is similar, but there is one major difference. When an organ donor dies, the odds of their death occurring under circumstances which would allow their...
WHY I decided to have that conversation with my children
– Written by Lisa Van Deventer – In February of 2017, I read a headline on the Timeslive website, and couldn’t quite believe what I was reading. The teenage son of my old school friend had apparently suffered a brain aneurysm at the local gym and was...
Have a heart, support uncle on life-saving mission
“Picture on the right – Jamie (bottom) and clockwise, Simon Purdon and Noah Speirs (both Jamie’s cousins), Josh Waller (Jamie’s brother), Ellen (cousin and Leon’s daughter) and Leon Oosthuizen, Jamie’s intrepid uncle with itchy feet. “ CONSIDERING her mantra, which...
A biker with secondhand parts
YOU’VE woken up with a crick in the neck, and end up walking around for a couple of days wincing at every turn, wondering how you’ll manage to sleep if you can’t get into a position that relieves the pain. After a few anti-inflammatories, the ache...
