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Title: Im in the local rag.
Post by: sico on February 22, 2010, 09:39:38 PM

http://maroondah-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/ringwood-dad-s-donation-of-a-lifetime/

May have to copy and paste into the browser?
Not sure if this works?

They stuffed it up, my dad isn't from Ringwood. Idiots..

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: okarol on February 22, 2010, 10:12:02 PM

cool!!  :2thumbsup;

Dad’s donation of a lifetime
 
23 Feb 10 @ 07:00am by Shaun Campbell

BRAD Smith is looking forward to heading out for a few days of camping with his mates later this year.

The 32-year-old Ringwood man has had to spend nine hours a day at home on dialysis since one of his kidneys failed 15 months ago.

Brad, a casual construction labourer, used to enjoy getting out of Melbourne for five days at a time to ride his dirtbike and fish with his mates.

He will be able to do so again when his father, Lyall, donates a kidney later this year.

Lyall travelled from northern Victoria to Melbourne last week for blood and kidney function tests.

The Robinvale resident said doctors had given him the all-clear to donate.

“When his (Brad’s) kidney failed, it came as a shock,” Lyall said.

“The whole family went through tissue matching and my wife and I were the closest match.”

Lyall, 55, said losing a kidney was “a small price to pay” for giving his son “a better quality of life”.

“All I will have to do is have regular function tests and become a non-smoker,” he said.

But Brad said he was “in two minds” when Lyall first brought up the subject of donation.

“It is a pretty big procedure so I was going to go on the waiting list, which is about seven years,” Brad said.

“But then I realised that I was lucky to have family offering me a kidney when heaps of people don’t.

“I knew I would feel guilty taking one off them when I didn’t have to.”

Brad said he now realised the importance of organ donation.

“If you had told me two years ago that I would need a kidney donation I would have laughed at you,” he said.

“It has opened up a few of my mates’ eyes and they have signed up to be an organ donor.”

This week is Organ Donor Awareness Week. To register as a donor, phone 1800 777 203 or go to medicareaustralia.gov.au. To find more details about donation, see donatelife.gov.au

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: jennyc on February 22, 2010, 10:28:07 PM

congrats brad!

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: charee on February 23, 2010, 12:28:23 AM

Great to see more media attention on live donors , hopefully get people thinking. Good luck Brad

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: harley08 on February 23, 2010, 07:54:14 AM

Congrats.... very cool, best of luck to both of you, what a wonderful gift. :grouphug; :cuddle; :yahoo;

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: Jean on February 23, 2010, 12:06:14 PM

Purty durned awesome I would say. Good luck to you Brad. :bandance;

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: Rerun on February 23, 2010, 12:24:06 PM

That's great!  Best wishes~

              :cheer:

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: monrein on February 23, 2010, 05:25:16 PM

Like the photo of you and your Dad.

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: RichardMEL on February 23, 2010, 08:03:14 PM

awesome stuff. Are you guys going through RMH?

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: sico on February 23, 2010, 11:55:33 PM

Thanks heeps everyone!

Bloody reporters couldn't get the story straight though, it says ONE of my kidneys failed, like HELLO i wouldn't be on dialysis if i still had a working kidney now would i?  :Kit n Stik; Reminds me that people really have no clue at all.

Richard - It will happen at the Austin in Heidelberg, then when i'm discharged back to St Vincents transplant clinic.
Dad meets his surgeon next week.

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: RichardMEL on February 24, 2010, 03:55:10 AM

Interesting mate. I will follow your journey with interest. If my brother is approved for ABO incompatable transplant the neph wants to send us to the Austin.

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: Wattle on February 24, 2010, 04:13:13 AM

 :cheer: :cheer:

Yay! We are all waiting on the date!

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: Bub on February 24, 2010, 10:24:41 AM

Hey, I was in the local rag too, but I am petitioning the judge to clear my record.

Title: Re: Im in the local rag.
Post by: tyefly on February 24, 2010, 10:29:00 AM

Get a good lawyer    Bub........  that judge has been bought out....