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re: Are you an Organ Donor?
Posted on 11/21/16 at 6:32 pm to Hopeful Doc
Posted on 11/21/16 at 6:32 pm to Hopeful Doc
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It's very important that you make your next of kin aware of your wishes. Their consent is required, and it happens much too soon for them to be ready to make the decision quite often.
Here in Louisiana, one can sign up at a drives Lic place. I'm not a donor due to my health, but all my family are donors. One day if and when it's my time, I pray to God that someone will be willing to donate a heart for me. There are last time I check at Ochsner in New Orleans, 28 people that need heart transplants. These people are living with LVADs(pumps).
They wanted to put one in me, but I turn it down and thank God I did. I am doing good these days. Well, some of them. 
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Posted on 11/21/16 at 7:16 pm to Titus Pullo
Yes. They can have whatever they can use. I'm pretty sure I won't care.
Posted on 11/21/16 at 7:27 pm to fishfighter
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Here in Louisiana, one can sign up at a drives Lic place. I'm not a donor due to my health, but all my family are donors
I worked in donation for many years in Louisiana. Regardless of what your license says, it's your family's decision. If your license doesn't have the little heart, your name is still turned over to LOPA, they still call your family, and they still ask if they think you wanted to donate. The only difference between the calls from the person requesting consent is that in some cases they can say "we see they were registered, so we think it was something they wanted."I've had those families say no.
So again, i try to explain that the DMV's organ donor registry is essentially worthless compared to making your wishes known to your family.
Posted on 11/21/16 at 7:30 pm to Titus Pullo
Naw there's no way that any of my organs will be any good when I die
Posted on 11/21/16 at 7:35 pm to Titus Pullo
Titus,I was the closest match in the family.3 out 4.But a kidney became available that was a 4 out of 4 match.
The Donor was a 18 year old Female U of A Student killed in a traffic accident.
A girl I knew came up to me at a bar an told it was her friend.They may have told her family about the transplant to help them in their grief.
I guess maybe I feel an unpaid debt that I need to settle.
The Donor was a 18 year old Female U of A Student killed in a traffic accident.
A girl I knew came up to me at a bar an told it was her friend.They may have told her family about the transplant to help them in their grief.
I guess maybe I feel an unpaid debt that I need to settle.
This post was edited on 11/21/16 at 7:38 pm
Posted on 11/21/16 at 7:54 pm to tidalmouse
Yes I am. I'm a nurse with ICU and surgery experience. Doing organ harvest cases and getting cards from LOPA detailing how many lives are effected is awesome!
Also watching families connect with one another after organ donation is pretty amazing.
Also watching families connect with one another after organ donation is pretty amazing.
Posted on 11/21/16 at 8:16 pm to Displaced
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I am not an organ donor. I have an irrational fear that should I be delivered to a hospital and doctors see I am a donor that they will not give their all to save my life.
Thats not how it works.
I frick off on TD but this subject is one that I'm serious about when it gets brought back up. My SO is in Organ Harvesting (no pics). HopfulDoc's post is accurate. I also know SundayFunday is in the field as well. So much goes into harvesting its pretty damn amazing when things come together and work out. Here is a copy of my first TD post after lurking forever. LINK
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For everyone who says they are a donor, make sure your family, specifically your legal next of kin knows your wishes. Your family is still approached upon your passing for consent to donate. If they say no, you don't donate.
Also, if you're brain dead and NOT listed as a donor, your family may be approached as well for donation. They need all they can get offered.
I don't think people realize what goes in to all the work, time, and money organ procurement goes through to get "good" organs. There have been instances where harvest teams fly out of NOLA to meet in Shreveport with the surgeon flying in from New York only to have him nix every organ as not good enough. All fly back empty handed. Quite sad really.
As far as the "they won't save you if your a donor" mindset is nonsense. If you're not already on life support when you go brain dead, your organs have a minimal chance of being used anyway.
If anyone has further questions, I would think/hope PoppaD would be nice enough to answer them. His 19 year old son gave 5 people another shot at life. To think, when we die and leave this world, that we can leave more than just memories with our loved ones, its a pretty powerful thing.
Posted on 11/21/16 at 8:24 pm to Displaced
My friend is in school right now and they said this is true
Posted on 11/21/16 at 8:40 pm to Titus Pullo
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Are you an Organ Donor? by Titus Pullo
absolutely...I can't think of a valid reason not to be, really. I don't want to be used for research or anything like that, but if there are organs that can be used to help someone, that is what I want.
honestly, if you don't know anyone who needs an organ now, chances are that you eventually will. a heck of a lot of folks pass away waiting for an organ every day while the organs of others are buried with them.
Posted on 11/21/16 at 9:08 pm to Displaced
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I am not an organ donor. I have an irrational fear that should I be delivered to a hospital and doctors see I am a donor that they will not give their all to save my life.
Not true at all. Working in the ER of a Level 1 Trauma center, I assure you this does not take place, at least at the institutions I've worked at. And it's actually quite the opposite.
Things are so busy when someone comes in dying, the only reason people even get your license is so that they can correctly register you. If you do survive the initial insult, but it is later determined that your prognosis is futile, measures will be taken to keep you going long enough to determine if your organs can be and will be used to save someone else's life, essentially giving you a little more time to make your case...
When organs are donated, they do not cut off life support until you are in the operating room, and the transplant surgeon is ready to help you give the ultimate donation. Once you are truly dead, your organs are worthless unless they are taken right away.
Posted on 11/21/16 at 9:13 pm to Titus Pullo
Yes
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