Organ donation?
 

I dont carry a card in the Uk, it's one of those "I'll get around to it" things that I've never got around to....

I wondered if they have cards in Oz, or what the system is?

Or are my organs no good cos I'm from the UK and might have mad cow disease? (mad, moi?!)

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Hi there,

You can get the application (?!) form from any Medicare Office.

HTH
Mrs J

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Yep that's right....cant give blood here for 10 years ( i think) coz of mad cows.

applicable to UK peeps

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Now you knew a reply would be too tempting didn't you? :D BUT - I've restrained myself.

Anyway - while you're still in the UK you can register HERE . You don't even have to leave your desk.

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Is this really true. My husband has been donating blood for years (over 100 pints so far). Surely there is a screening test they can do to rule out any disease. For God's sake, we came from South African (the home of HIV) and all they did here in the UK was test him and let him donate!!

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Yee know me toooooo well! :rolleyes:

Well, that's me signed up then, thanks for that! :)

Will have to sign up as soon as get to Oz I think, otherwise will never get round to it there either....!

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What organs you offering?? If/when i get the visa grant i might be in the market for a new liver:D:D:D:D

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yep, if you lived in uk between 1980 and 1996.

http://www.donateblood.com.au/Donor/guide/eligible.asp

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LOL! :D

I've signed up for everything except the corneas, I have this wierd thing about eyes and I just dont like the idea of someone looking through mine - probably totally ridiculous but there you go! :o

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Anyway - while you're still in the UK you can register HERE . You don't even have to leave your desk.[/QUOTE]


Thanks for posting this - I have carried a card for yonks and had just never got round to finding the web site.
:)
Heather

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How spooky, hubby and I were talking about this last night, and I said everything but my eyes :eek:

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:eek:

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You have it on your drivers licence here in WA.

I carry a doner card - I want someone to have my kebab after I die - BOOM BOOM!

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You were watching that Greys Anatomy I bet :)

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LOL! :D

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They can have any part of me.

Ive said this before, if yours or your loved ones heart can go on beating after you die, then let it beat in the body of someone else.

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I don't have an organ, but we would like to get rid of an old piano stool.

Any takers?

;)

(Bridie - good on ya for posting this - I've been meaning to find out about it for months.)

Cheers,
Anya.

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I've signed up for everything - once I'm dead, they can have what they like. Whether they'd want them would be another thing!

Only thing I couldn't bear would be to donate my body for medical research or as a cadaver for student training - I know what these med students get up to!

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After we migrated to Australia, we automatically got a letter in the mail about six weeks later, from the Australian Organ Donor organisation (can't remember their exact name) asking us if we wanted to put our names down.

We didn't think about it twice, signed the form and gave consent, and got our cards a few days later with a thank you letter. We carry the cards in our wallets.

I used to be in two minds about being an organ donor, until I read a discussion on it on another forum, where someone asked: would you be willing to accept an organ from a donor should you or your child need it in order to survive? And then I realised, yes, it would be selfish to be willing to accept but not to give IYKWIM.

Cheers
Els :)

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I was at centerlink and picked up my card, the gurl said we need more Organs ... i winked and said Oh yeah ;)

She said WE ARE GRATEFUL for ANY SMALL DONATIONS !!! and winked back, with the look of YOU TIT ! lol

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They can have any bit of me they like.

A friend of mines son collapsed and died with an anyerism last week, he was 11. The only thing keeping her going trough all of this is the fact that only 2 weeks prior (totally unrelatedly!) they had chatted about this and he said thats what he wanted to do.

Little jake now lives on in an eight year olds heart a 24 year olds pancreas a nearly blind mans eyes (they don't tke the whole eye, just a very thin sheath from over the top) and now several other peoples families have now got the hope of loved ones being around for christmas.

In Aus you can register here:)

http://www.hic.gov.au/yourhealth/our_services/aaodr.htm

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Well -considering I pasted the link to sign up online, I'm ashamed I've only just got round to signing up tonight (and yes - Casualty prompted me to finally do it!).

So come on guys - get yourselves registered.

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Our Daughter died while on the donor list so we realise as a family how important it is.

We too watched casualty tonight & if it even makes one person sign up it will be worthwhile.

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I am the same as you they can have anything they want except my eye's. Don't really know why there is just something about eyes.

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so sorry to hear about your daughter. i have had a donor card for about 22 years, and have registered on the donor line. i also give blood and am on the bone marrow transplant lists (anthony nolan and blood donor one). i hope i will be able to continue these things in australia, but somehow dont think so. i think the blood thing is an issue, and dont know about organ donors? :( :confused:

i think the system needs changing and you should carry a card if you DONT want to donate your organs (i think this is the case in USA?).

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There is a specific issue with giving blood if you have lived in the UK between 1980 and 1996 (irrespective of what your nationality is).

However - don't automatically assume that it stops you from being an organ donor unless advised specifically otherwise. There is no information to this effect on the relevant websites.

As to whether the 'system' should be changed, it's quite significant step to force people to make the effort of opting-out if they don't want organs used. What should be looked at as a much higher priority is removing relatives right of veto (as opposed to a right to be informed) if someone has made the effort to register as a donor.

I'd think that in the USA this is governed by state laws and hence will vary greatly across the country.

Jeremy

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Anyone who lived in the UK during the 1980's cannot give blood in Australia. However, you can donate your organs. I assume they are able to clean said organ so thoroughly it becomes irrelevant what blood has passed through it.

Unfortunately I had a couple of blood transfusions whilst giving birth to first born so cannot give blood in the UK anyway. Used to until they cottoned on the transfusion/CJD perceived link.

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Thank you for your comments & well done you for doing your bit.

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We're the same. They can make me hollow inside but leave my appearances as they are thank you. Trouble is, and I feel guilty about this, eyes or rather corneas are one of the hardest organs to get. Yet you're done within the hour. I'm working on my inner fears!!!

Cheers

Ginny

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This is something I feel so strongly about.

My friend said she didnt agree with organ donation in any shape or form.

Would not entertain the idea of it and wouldnt discuss it.

That is until she became ill with a rare liver condition and will need a transplant in 5 years.

I saw a programme last year on American TV, and it was about this boy who had received a heart and lung transplant from a donor.

He met the parents of the donor and gave them a colour scan of the heart beating inside his body, it was so emotional, you would not believe it.

The family of the donor, were so pleased to receive the framed scan as well.

I think that if the heart of your loved one has the chance to beat in another body then who are we to stop it. If nature intends those vital organs to give another person the chance of life, then who are we to argue?

My sister wont let her son be a donor yet she would take an organ for him if he needed it.

So please to those who are not registered as organ donors, read the post I am replying to and imagine it was your loved one needing a transplant.

Would that make you re-consider?

I am registered as an organ donor and so is my husband and if someone can live on after my death, then I consider that to be a privilege.

To give a heart or any other organ the chance to work in two bodies is incredible.

I would do it without hesitation.

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I've just done mine, god i'm a ditz!!

I read the site and just saw the bit where it said "print form". Our printers poorly so left it, just re read it and you can do it on line. Job done! I've even been brave and done my eyes! Its not all of your eye, just a thin sheeth, c'mon folks it aint like you'll need 'em:D

https://www2.hic.gov.au/pext/aodr/Pa...gistration.jsp

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Well done hevs.

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I was registered in the UK and regestered a couple of weeks ago here in oz whilst in the medicare office and my card turned up a week later, as far as I am concerned they can have what they want from me, I'm not gonna be needing it am I.

It says on the card to tell relatives of your wishes as they play a big part in the decission, from what I understand if you are on life support they have to take some organs before you actually die and some families might be a bit funny with this. I threatened to haunt Ant forever if he doesn't go along with what I want.

He will not even contemplate donating his organs, I have given him all the arguements and although he agrees that if we had a kid who needed a new heart or something he would take it he will not register to donate his organs at all, he just says thet no one is gonna chop him up. It makes me so angry but at the end of the day what can you do, I'd hate for him to die and me to have to make that decission as I would realy want to donate his organs but would know that it is not what he wanted.

Kala