Chemist Warehouse Catalogue - 10/03-22/03/2023 (Page 21)

health this month "without a donor heart artist received a donor heart in getting on the transplant list she shares her journey - and her gratitude with dilvin yasa don't know that you ever forget hearing the words that you have choices are to go on an organ transplant situation i found myself in early 2021 with dilated cardiomyopathy- a condition that means that the heart chamber responsible for pushing reoxygenated blood around my body was compromised the valves in my heart had come away completely and that i'd gone into cardiogenic did i want to go on the list? they didn't have to ask me twice getting on the transplant list tricky beast even without a pandemic raft of medical tests; they check things like syphilis - to make sure the only thing that's faulty with your body is the organ that needs replacing covid added extra complications such as about - and even those going into hospital for major surgery had to arrive and endure it alone donor heart was no longer viable made it clear that this was not uncommon to the hospital on the morning of the surgery usual cardio team because by that stage they felt like family that; i was in an induced coma for a week and then in the cardiac ward for another two weeks it took three to four months to recover and start feeling normal and i used this time to not only build my strength but reflect on their family six months after the transplant you're able to send a letter to the donor's family incredibly cathartic how do you thank someone for saving your life? how do you let someone know what their donation has meant? it really is the greatest gift anyone could give and instead of only leaving the do their memory justice and live that gratitude every single day there isn't a day that goes past where i don't think about different person to the one that got wheeled into surgery obviously there's the the house of wellness 21 the facts one organ donor can save up to seven lives and help many more through eye and tissue donation € ●there are currently about transplant list and an additional kidney transplant ●four in five australians support 16-plus who are eligible to register as an organ and tissue donor but haven't ● it only takes one minute to sign three taps in your medicare app change that's really floored me want to jump into everything and give it my all i've reimmersed myself into my art and friends and rather than make a big bucket monumental the small things are there's nothing i love more than pottering around the house with my husband and watching the birds in the garden the fact that i'm able to get up and appreciate this long after i should have been dead never ceases to amaze me and i have my organ donor to thank for that lottery ticket and i think 'why? i've already had all the luck in the world." discover what happens when you donate organs