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Title: Documentary TV series looking for recipients and living donors
Post by: ml24 on April 03, 2009, 06:08:17 AM

I'm a researcher for a documentary television series called "My Last 24" which is about the last 24 hours in someone's life before an important event. The series is in development and produced by Galafilm Productions (www.galafilm.com).
We are looking for people who are about to have a kidney transplant with a living donor, in the next few months. We hope to be able to tell stories not often heard, and in this way help create awareness for organ donation.
If you're in this situation or would like to share your story, email us at last24hours@gmail.com
I look forward to hearing from you all!
Julie Girard
Researcher, My Last 24
www.galafilm.com

Title: Re: Documentary TV series looking for recipients and living donors
Post by: Sluff on April 03, 2009, 10:15:00 AM

Welcome to  ihatedialysis.com ml24,

Hope your documentary will be aimed at helping the dialysis and kidney disease community. The biggest thing to remember is most everyone has two kidneys but only need one. To say we have a kidney shortage would be the wrong way to present the problem to the public, there is no shortage, there is however a shortage of donors.  John Hopkins University I believe is the leader in doing multiple transplants at one time. I'm not sure what the terminology is but they can line up 3 or 4 donors to 3 or 4 recipients.

Thank you for any work you are doing to increase the possibility of people stepping forward to Donate their organs, specifically Kidneys.

Sluff/Admin

Title: Re: Documentary TV series looking for recipients and living donors
Post by: kimcanada on April 03, 2009, 04:37:35 PM

Sluff, I think what you mean is a "daisy chain"

The possibility of sparking “daisy chain” transplants, described in the March 12, 2009, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), was prompted by reports of one round of 10 kidney transplants, all generated from a single kidney donated by an altruistic donor, says Robert Montgomery, M.D., Ph.D., transplant chief at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author of the study. An altruistic donor is someone willing to donate a kidney to any needy recipient.

Title: Re: Documentary TV series looking for recipients and living donors
Post by: okarol on April 03, 2009, 05:26:30 PM

http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=13252.0 Here's the news story

Title: Re: Documentary TV series looking for recipients and living donors
Post by: Sluff on April 04, 2009, 08:38:45 AM

That was exactly what I was talking about. Thanks