In light of the fact that Misdee's Peter may get a new heart tonight,why not sign up as a donor here? It will take two minutes.Remember,next time it might be someone you love who needs one.

[moondog]

Organ donation

I have also just sent a link to the organ donation site to all of my friends asking them to make sure they are registered.

xx

thank you for everyone that has signed up. it means an awful lot to us. i always said if i can get just one more person signed up i would be very happy.

there isnt much i can do to make peter better, but this i can do. and its for that reason alone i am going to try and conquor my live-talking-in-front-of-people fear and do the news things tomorrow. (five news @ 11.30am, and ITV london and anglia from lunch onwards i think)

good luck !

Wow, good luck Misdee.

How many people now?

Must be well over 100.

i showed my mum the montage you made ages ago Misdee.
i have always been on teh donor register but have known that if the decision was left to my mum she would not allow it.

after showing her themontage we spoke for a really long time and in teh end she agreed that if anything happened to me or my brothers (those of us that are now adult) if we were registered ( which i have made sure we now are) she would honour our decision.

its a huge thing for her to do as she is catholic and feel uneasy about removing parts of the body etc.
i have had so many chats with her about it, i even went a bit below the belt and pointed out that one of my brothers had a heart condition at birth that could have resulted withhim needing a transplant...i asked her if she would have refused it and when she said no i called her a hypocrite.
still she didn't change her mind...but your montage did.
so well done

Just put mine and dh's details down. Will discuss the kids with him later.

done

done

Another three from my email to my friends x

I have registered myself, and although it made me feel ill, I have also registered my darling son. As was metnioned already, it may save another child's life. I will also be getting dp to register when he gets home.

I too feel it should be an opt out system, with a very strong valid reason to opt out.

have registered and passed it on...will add ds too.

Bravo Kay

signed up

Been meaning to do this for ages as the scrappy donor card I had has long since bitten the dust.
Thanks for the link

Signed up.

Me dh & the 2 children.

I sigend up ages ago but never got any correspondance, so hopefully this time it will go OK.

I just cannot bring myself to sign DS up. Surely it would be me that had to give approval anyway should the worst happen?

The thought just makes me feel sick. I really can't do it

Having a dd with a heart condition woke me up to donating your childs organs if the worst happened.

Before her I would never have contemplated it and infact dp is not too happy about my decision to sign them up either.

Done.

Done.

I'm already on there..... my dh's good friend had a heart transplant at 28, so we're all in favour of people being on this list. The friend ran a Ball as a fundraiser a year later and it raised several thousand pounds - so that is a good news story for you - and he is getting married this year.

IKWYM Wilkie, but when dh & myself discussed it, we talked about all the possibilities.

What if we are all in the car & we have an accident? What if Dh & I aren't conscious when permission is needed? This way there is no doubt, as I have signed the register for him.

What if me & ds/dd are in an accident? What if dh doesn't get there in time for our organs to be useful to someone elses child? Or what if some mother could survive with my organs & dh is too distressed to comply with my wishes?

I know it's extremely hard to think about, but I just want to make sure that if some woman's son or daughter can be saved when mine can't, I want don't want them to know the pain I will know at the time.

Does that make sense?