July – National Transplant Week
06 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
in Charity, Uncategorized Tags: organ donation, transplant, transplant week
JULY
This month I had the dilemma of which cause to pick as ’cause of the month’. I just couldn’t decide, which is why the post is late. Then, thanks again to Twitter, I came across someone who made my decision for me. Let me introduce you to 23 year old Victoria Tremlett – an avid musical theatre lover (www.twitter.com/tor87).
Victoria suffers from the genetic condition Cystic Fibrosis, that effects lungs and the digestive system. An unusually sticky and thick mucus is produced that clogs the lungs which can lead to life threatening lung infections. It also obstructs the pancreas and stops natural enzymes from helping the body break down and absorb food. Victoria’s condition has now got to the stage where she needs a double lung transplant to save her life. She was placed on the organ transplant list and her doctors gave her 18months to live. That was 4 years ago. Somehow Victoria is surviving, but is she really living?
I will now hand over to Victoria to let her explain her situation in her own words:
Her blog, “Past the point of no return”
And this short video:
This week (4-10 July) is National Transplant Week. 10,000 people in the UK are on the transplant waiting list – 3 of whom die each day waiting for the transplant that never came.
Let your body do some good when you no longer need it; 1 person can save 9 lives. The maths is simple so please sign up
