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Organ Donation: It's all about LIFE

There are two essential steps to saving lives through organ donation

1. SHARE YOUR LIFE. Decide to be a donor.

Transplants provide hope for thousands of people with organ failure. In addition, hundreds of thousands more can be helped with tissue transplants. Unfortunately, the need for donors is much greater than the actual number of donors. Your commitment to organ and tissue donation can save lives.

2. SHARE YOUR DECISION. Tell your family.

The most important part of deciding to be a donor is telling your family. Talking about donation doesn't mean talking about death. It is talking about the opportunity to give another person a second chance at life. Even if you have signed a donor card or indicated your wish to donate on your driver's license, you need to tell your family since they will be consulted before donation can take place.

	Important facts about donation:
•	There is no national registry of organ and tissue donors. Even if you have signed something, be sure you have told your family of your wishes as they will be consulted before donation can take place.
•	All major religions approve of organ and tissue donation and consider donation the greatest gift.
•	An open casket funeral is possible for organ and tissue donors.
	•	There is no cost to the donor's family or estate for organ and tissue donation. Funeral costs remain the responsibility of the family.
	•	People of all ages and medical histories should consider themselves potential donors. Your medical condition at the time of death will determine what organs and tissue can be donated.

Organ Donor Card
You can download and print out an organ donor card. But remember, completing this card alone is not enough. You also need to discuss your wishes with your family.

Click to Download PDF version or Download JPEG version

To find out more about organ donation, visit the web site of the Coalition on Donation: www.shareyourlife.org


Bone Marrow Donation: The Living Gift of Life

Marrow transplants are the only hope for survival for many children and adults with leukemia, aplastic anemia, and other fatal blood diseases and cancers. Unfortunately, nearly 70 percent of these patients cannot find suitably matched marrow donors within their families. They need to find unrelated marrow donors - people who have volunteered to donate marrow if ever matched with any patient in need. A national registry of marrow donors is maintained by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP).

Because tissue types are inherited, and some tissue types are unique to certain racial or ethnic groups, a patient's best chance of finding a match is within his or her ethnic and racial group. Currently, the majority of the volunteers on the NMDP Registry are Caucasian. While all volunteer donors are welcome, there is a critical need for minority donors to help the many minority patients searching the Registry.

You can become a volunteer donor through your local donor center if you are between the ages of 18 and 60 and are in good health. To find out the center closest to you, and to learn more about the donation process, go to the National Marrow Donor Program Web Site (www.marrow.org) or call 1-800-MARROW-2.

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[Timeout]

Take solace in knowing that the Dems are doing Dean and themselves extreme damage during this leadup to the caucuses. These mean days can't last long enough for Karl Rove.

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Sure am glad I didn't plan to spend New Years in the Phillipines!

22 Dead, Hundreds Injured in Raucus New Years Celebration.

Meanwhile, Fox just showed our troops in Kabul, Afghanistan...they hauled a wad of Christmas lights up to the top of a flagpole, then slowly dropped it just before midnight. It was funny!

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Dubya and Laura must be just about heading out for their sunrise walk at the ranch. God be with both of them this year!

[Iowa Granny]

The canabalism within the Dim Party is astounding. Generally, they have better luck gathering their Sheeple back into the tent. I'm not so sure about it this time.

The Dean supporters have not been involved in politics in the past, and don't seem to be playing by their rules. It will be interesting to watch.

[BigWaveBetty]

Happy New Year to you!!

Saw a pol. pundit yesterday that said he thinks Dean will pick Graham for VP. He said that Dean and Graham have gotten very close lately.

I've also heard John Lewis because Lewis is the granddaddy of civil rights. (?)

I really don't see Dean picking Graham (although I have crossed my fingers, I'd like to see the dem party here in FL take another smack!) because after his surgery he doesn't seem to be all there.

God forbid Dean should be elected and fill the WH full of freaks. I'm sure the gays that are helping Dean would be of the militant variety.

With that kind of backing he'd win the hard left but the center left would probably run screaming to vote republican.

[BigWaveBetty]

I will be so very, very happy when the Caucuses are over. I am just sick to death of these dim wits.

Ugh, it must be awful. 19 more days? Hang in there!

[Timeout]

I just don't see the Graham pick either.

I think he's the candidate most likely to open the first veep debate saying "Who am I? Why am I here?"...ala Admiral James Stockdale. LOL!

[mountaineer]

A gay/black coalition? I guess a lot of guilt-ridden white lefties would be attracted to such a cause. But enough to win outside the bastions Dems will win anyway?

If the GOP demonstrates sufficient cajones to bring this to everyone's attention, it can use this to win back the Reagan Democrats, e.g., the steelworkers and other union guys who are really Republicans, if they'd just admit it to themselves.

[mountaineer]

Things are not well in Democrat land when this is what James Carville has to say of a fellow Dem, the lovely and talented Howard Dean:

"I'm scared to death that this guy just says anything. It feels like he's undergone some kind of a political lobotomy here."
Robert Novak column on Dean's gaffes

[SAMWolf]

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Dean has already been recruiting for VP running mates.

[BigWaveBetty]

"I'm Bob Graham and I represent the un-electable (my emphasis) wing of the Democratic Party."

We forgot about this tidbit:

In June, Dean dismissed Graham's presidential candidacy, saying he wasn't a "major" rival for the nomination, though Dean later said he was sorry for the remark.

But then there's this:

Later Dean said, in reference to a question about a running mate, "I'm going to pick somebody with defense and foreign policy experience.... The fact is, it's a resume problem. I need to plug that hole in my resume. And I am going to do that with my running mate" Graham could certainly help Dean there. After all, Graham was the former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

In some ways, Dean, should he get the nomination, will have limited options. He'll want to "plug the hole" in his resume by tapping someone with foreign policy experience, but he'll also, no doubt, want someone who opposed the war in Iraq. Considering all the mileage Dean has gotten out of the war, he can't very well turn around and pick a running mate who supported the invasion.

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Dean would be safe with a Lewis pick, Lewis didn't support the war did he? But then Lewis doesn't come with 27 electoral votes.

I shoulda asked Santa Claus for a Dean/Clark ticket, now that would be fun!

[Timeout]

I've got it!

Black? Foreign policy experience? Opposed the Iraq war?

Dean's gonna pick Colin Powell!

[daisyscarlett]

What a great way to begin 2004 with a kiss from the President.

U.S. President George W. Bush kisses nine-month-old Liana Flores as her mother, Jackie, looks on, as he arrives at Falfurrias, Texas to spend the day hunting, January 1, 2004. Bush, who left his Crawford ranch for the first time in a week, was to meet with his father, George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State James Baker for quail hunting, at the El Tule Ranch in remote Brooks County, Texas. REUTERS/Mike Theiler

[daisyscarlett]

[daisyscarlett]

Looks like Chels and Ian are doing the Bahamas for New Year's. Check out Ian's long curly locks and he looks like he put on a few too..hee hee...Bless their hearts...

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea Clinton, watches the New Year's Day Junkanoo parade with an unidentified companion from a private enclosure as the parade makes its way along Bay Street in downtown Nassau, Bahamas Thursday, Jan. 1, 2004. The annual street festival draws thousands of Bahamians and tourists to the streets in the early morning hours and continues on into the first day of the new year. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)

[daisyscarlett]

I am so happy that W is having a quiet time at the ranch...Of course, the New York Times is not....Bitchy article in NY Times

HAPPY NEW YEAR MR. PRESIDENT....YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD....

U.S. President George W. Bush waves to the press as he arrives at Falfurrias, Texas, to spend the day hunting, January 1, 2004. Bush, who left his Crawford ranch for the first time in a week, was to meet with his father, George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State James Baker for quail hunting at the El Tule Ranch in remote Brooks County, Texas. REUTERS/Mike Theiler

[mountaineer]

The White House is so guarding Mr. Bush's privacy that it declined to say who is staying at the ranch, or even what the president and Laura Bush planned to do for New Year's Eve, other than have dinner with friends and family.

The NY Times has a problem with this - Bush's "secret" dinner plans - but no problem with the White House so zealously guarding Clintoon's privacy, i.e., his medical conditions?

[BigWaveBetty]

LOL!

[mountaineer]

Poor Ian, it wasn't enough that his only claim to fame was as Chelsea's bed partner, now he's just an "unidentified companion."

[BigWaveBetty]

Happy New Year daisyscarlett!

The press is still snippy over having to spend holidays and the summer in Crawford. And they're not pleased with the inevitability of another four years. heh heh heh!

[BigWaveBetty]

I didn't see that! Yep, I read it, it just didn't register. Oh how very funny!