by Admin | Apr 24, 2018 | Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
My life before being diagnosed with kidney disease was filled with many challenges and often with sudden bouts of illness brought on by my erratic sugar levels which led to me being hospitalised often. I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 12 and after...
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 | Jan 25, 2018 | Matthew's Transplant, Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
We were interviewed again for the SABC radio stations. This time post Matthew’s heart and double lung Transplant. Play the audio file below: LISTEN : Hero777 SABC Interview with Matthew by Minoshni Pillay...
by Admin | Jan 25, 2018 | Matthew's Transplant, Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
Matthew came home from the hospital on a Wednesday, so Wednesday became “check-up day”. With the first week at home being a “no go zone” for visitors, the first trip back to the hospital was Matthew’s first excursion post transplant, and he loved the idea of seeing...