My life was saved by a stranger. What is more extraordinary is that I never met her. Up until the age of four my life was dictated by dialysis, doctors and debilitating sickness. My kidneys were starved of oxygen and blood at birth and, like my brain, never recovered leaving me with chronic renal failure. Every day was a struggle with extreme tiredness, towels of sick and nightly dialysis.
All that changed one snowy January morning with a phone call to my parents telling them a transplant match had been donated. Overnight my sickness stopped as did my need for dialysis, and I felt properly well for the first time in my life. Since my successful transplant I have been able to concentrate at home school and have even been to France for the day.
During this Organ Donation Week (5th-11th September 2016) please consider joining the organ donation register and having a conversation with your family about it. My life was totally transformed by the generosity of this stranger and her family. It will be my honour to donate my eyes when I die so that when I no longer need them my eyes can give new sight to someone else.
EYE CAN TALK 
Hi, it’s great that you are promoting organ donation – I’ve been on the list for many years but far more people need to join it – keep up the good work !
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What an excellent testimony on how such greatness can come out of tragedy..should help people make the decision to register as Donors (No good just thinking about it !).
Iv been on the register since the 80s,&have all my family on it too.
Another one to consider is The Brain Bank..helping Facilitate Research into Neurological Conditions. They need real brain tissue to work with, healthy as well as affected for comparisons.We are registered with Parkinsons’ Society Brain Bank, but they share with all the other major Neurological Researchers-and it saves many animals from being cruelly experimented on-with innacurate results.
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