Photo contest seeks creative expressions of support Ann Arbor, MI – Showing support for organ and tissue donation can be as easy as selecting which colors to wear or deciding how to dress up your pet. April 16 is National Donate Life Blue & Green Day, when anyone can wear blue and green, decorate their […]
يسلط اليوم الأزرق والأخضر الضوء على الحاجة إلى المتبرعين بالأعضاء والأنسجة المسجلة قراءة المزيد »
Rebecca Anderson has been able to watch her daughter get married, graduate from Michigan State University and earn a master’s degree. She has traveled to the Mediterranean and celebrated her 30th anniversary with her husband, Rex. It’s an impressive list, considering she was never expected to see her first birthday. Anderson was born with idiopathic
امرأة ساوثجيت تحتفل بمغامرات جديدة ، معالم حياتية قراءة المزيد »
Grant funds will enhance education on organ and tissue donation Gift of Life Michigan will use $75,000 in donations from a student-led nonprofit organization to help bring awareness of organ and tissue donation to young people across the state. The funds were generated in 2020 through a year-long partnership between the Gift of Life Foundation
Heather Luchies had long known she would need a kidney transplant. Fortunately, when the time came, a donor was closer than she had anticipated. In fact, she had married him nearly two decades earlier. Now 46, Heather Luchies was diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a condition that causes scar tissue to build up on
الزوج ينقذ زوجته بكلية متبرع بها قراءة المزيد »
Gift of Life honors donors, recipients and volunteers who help save lives Rebecca Anderson has been able to watch her daughter get married, graduate from Michigan State University and earn a master’s degree. She’s traveled to the Mediterranean and celebrated her 30th anniversary with her husband, Rex – and it’s all due to someone she
تسلط الأنشطة الافتراضية الضوء على الشهر الوطني للتبرع بالحياة قراءة المزيد »
Katy Rozman has a message for young transplant recipients or young people waiting for a new life-saving organ: you are not alone. “Sometimes all we need is someone to relate to and I don’t always think that’s available – especially for transplant kids,” she said. She should know. Now 31, Rozman has had heart troubles
"أقول فقط للناس: فكروا في أحبائكم". قراءة المزيد »
Student groups adapted in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic Thanks to the efforts of college students across Michigan, 164 new names were added to the Michigan Organ Donor Registry. During the annual five-week Gift of Life Michigan Campus Challenge, students from Michigan colleges encouraged their peers to register on the Michigan Organ Donor Registry. This
يضيف تحدي الحرم الجامعي 164 عضوًا إلى سجل المتبرعين في ميتشيغان قراءة المزيد »
State Senator encourages Michiganders to join Organ Donor Registry State. Sen. Kevin Daley (R-Lum) is once again taking up the cause of promoting organ and tissue donation. Daley, whose son donated his organs after he lost his life in a tragic accident on their family farm, introduced a resolution last week to recognize April as
يعترف قرار دالي بشهر التبرع بالحياة في ميشيغان قراءة المزيد »
Murphy Ainsworth was always fit, healthy and active – an energetic athlete who is remembered by family and friends as positive and carefree, with an easy-going smile. “He was really loved by everybody,” said his father, Tom. “He took the best of me and his mother. You really couldn’t have asked for a better kid.
`` كان معطيًا طوال حياته " قراءة المزيد »
Aimee Cruz would be the first person to tell you she’s lucky to be alive. Originally from Puerto Rico, the Ann Arbor resident has had three liver transplants in her life and is grateful for every day. “I’ve been very fortunate to still be here after all the things that have happened in my life,”
"أرى الحياة بطريقة مختلفة الآن" قراءة المزيد »
Legislation enables organ transplants from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive patients Legislation introduced into the Michigan House of Representatives on March 11 could bring hope to patients living with HIV. State Rep. Felicia Brabec (D-Pittsfield Township) has introduced the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act, which will allow organs from potential donors with HIV to be
هدية الحياة تحث ميشيغان الهيئة التشريعية على الموافقة على قانون الأمل قراءة المزيد »
Leah Howell celebrates two birthdays on the same day every year. One is hers, the other is her donated kidney, which she received the day after her birthday more than 16 years ago. She named her ultimate gift “Joey.” “I’m not really sure where the name came from,” she said. “I think I was joking
"يغير الطريقة التي تنظر بها إلى كل شيء" قراءة المزيد »
Stephen May had three words that he lived by: Everybody Love Everybody. He initially took it from the 2008 Will Ferrell movie Semi- Pro, but he fully adopted it into his life at Rockford High School, with the sports teams he played on and in the youth leagues where he served as a referee. “He
يترك المراهق إرثًا من اللطف والإيمان والشفاء قراءة المزيد »
Kay Walters just celebrated her 70th birthday. Later this year, she’ll mark an even more significant milestone: her 24th year living with a donated heart. “I can’t believe I’m this old,” she said with a laugh. “No one would ever believe that I was 70, that I would get to it.” That “nobody” initially included
يمنح القلب المتبرع به امرأة لانسينغ 24 عامًا من الحياة الإضافية ، والعدد في ازدياد قراءة المزيد »
‘It’s been the thing that’s kept me going,’ daughter says Marty Townsend never met a stranger. “He could talk to anybody,” said his daughter, Kimberly. “He was just friendly with everybody. He could take a walk and find two new best friends.” In fact, Marty Townsend, who passed suddenly after a stroke 16 years ago,
يعتبر قرار التبرع "بطانة فضية" لعائلة ميشيغان قراءة المزيد »
