by Admin | Apr 23, 2019 | Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
Our son, Aidan, was born on 24 December 2003. He was a healthy 3,040kg at birth. He became jaundice a few hours after birth and like all new-borns was put under the phototherapy lights. When we were discharged he was still jaundice but his doctor told us that his...
by Admin | Mar 6, 2019 | Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
As I sat down to write this article, I was in Medi Clinic Bloemfontein in bed 25 in the Urology ward. I was admitted with a bladder infection as infections are very common post-transplant. If there is one message, I can give to people, it is that health is wealth and...
by Admin | Apr 10, 2018 | Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
In 2005 at 13 months of age, Jarryd received his Gift of Life, a liver transplant, at the Red Cross Children’s hospital. He was just a couple of weeks away from death. This was our reality, when our miracle happened. Now, at 14 years’ old, he is a...
by Admin | Mar 5, 2018 | Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
Our story starts not very differently from most other couples you’ll meet. Boy meets girl, they talk forever and about everything under the sun, he proposes, and eventually they marry and have kids. Though we did meet online, that’s our twist! Actually our...
by Admin | Feb 19, 2018 | Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
After finding out I was in kidney failure 6 years ago I embarked on a quest to find out as much as possible about the kidneys, as I didn’t feel ill nor did I have any symptoms accompanied with kidney failure. I sought the opinion of many doctors all telling me...