tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18488065.post610440832248674368..comments2024-01-03T11:14:19.840+00:00Comments on This is my life, and I choose to love it.: Tinypoppethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264261421802702883noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18488065.post-48623577502842605112007-06-04T09:04:00.000+00:002007-06-04T09:04:00.000+00:00What a lovely, cheerful, newsy entry Emily - lovel...What a lovely, cheerful, newsy entry Emily - lovely to picture you running barefoot through the fields; what greater pleasure can life offer.<BR/><BR/>Don't worry about the further testing. Just keep telling yourself from now on "great, my test results are excellent and all is well". You'll be fine girl. <BR/><BR/>And thank God from all of us for the wonderful people in the medical profession, most of us would not be here without them.<BR/><BR/>Keep on having fun,<BR/>JanetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18488065.post-36816862415600338432007-06-04T08:30:00.000+00:002007-06-04T08:30:00.000+00:00Nice words Em. I try and thank my team as often a...Nice words Em. I try and thank my team as often as possible, just so they know I appreciate them even in their everyday work.<BR/><BR/>2 years I had am embolisation just before I went to NZ. I sent the radiologist a postcard and apparently he was delighted as it was the first out-of-hospital recognition he had had in years, and reaffirmed his belief in his work (?!). I always send PCs from abroad to say thank you for helping me get there. Your gestures are larger, and must bring joy to an otherwise often 'unthanked' taskforce. Well done :)Fihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14881409406548806313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18488065.post-63155312473400964932007-06-03T11:56:00.000+00:002007-06-03T11:56:00.000+00:00Yay!!!Yay!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18488065.post-41194100924608148372007-06-02T23:04:00.000+00:002007-06-02T23:04:00.000+00:00Emily,thank you so much for your thank you. As an ...Emily,<BR/><BR/>thank you so much for your thank you. As an NHS invisible (i.e. not a doctor or a nurse) I feel humbled to be, in some way, included in your thanks. I work in tissue transplant and so we sometimes get unplaced or unsuitable multi-organ donor hearts, which we can process for heart for valve transplant. Knowing your story has added an extra level of pride to my work, knowing that in some small way I am contributing to giving the world back more people like you. To be thanked as well, albeit indirectly, is special praise. <BR/><BR/>I'm so glad you got to go back to all those people and bring joy to their day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18488065.post-9160575040971272642007-06-01T23:29:00.000+00:002007-06-01T23:29:00.000+00:00The TV show has been proven to be a hoax now..."A ...The TV show has been proven to be a hoax now...<BR/><BR/>"A television show in which a woman would donate a kidney to a contestants was revealed as a hoax Friday, with presenters saying they were trying to pressure the government into reforming organ donation laws.<BR/><BR/>Shortly before the controversial program was to air, Patrick Lodiers of the "Big Donor Show" said the woman was not actually dying of a brain tumor as claimed and the entire exercise was intended to add pressure on the government and to raise public awareness of the need for organs.<BR/><BR/>The three prospective recipients were real patients in need of transplants and had been in on the hoax, the show said.<BR/><BR/>The program concept had received widespread criticism for being tasteless and unethical.<BR/><BR/>But Lodiers said that it was "reality that was shocking" because around 200 people die annually in the Netherlands while waiting for a kidney, and the average waiting time is more than four years. Under Dutch rules, donors must be friends, or preferably, family of the recipient. Meeting on a TV show wouldn't qualify.<BR/><BR/>"I thought it was brilliant, really," said Caroline Klingers, a kidney patient who was watching the show at a kidney treatment center in Bussum, Netherlands.<BR/><BR/>"I know these transplant doctors, and I thought they'll never go and actually do it. But it's good for the publicity and there are no losers."<BR/><BR/>During the show, viewers were called on to express an opinion or vote for their favorite candidate by SMS text message for 47 cents.<BR/><BR/>The show was produced by Endemol, which created "Big Brother" in 1999.<BR/><BR/>The Royal Netherlands Medical Association, known by its Dutch acronym KNM, had urged its members not to participate and questioned whether the program might just be a publicity stunt.<BR/><BR/>"Given the large medical, psychological, and legal uncertainties around this case, the KNMG considers the chance extremely small that it will ever come to an organ transplant," it said.<BR/><BR/>All seven of the country's transplant centers had said they not cooperating with the program, KNMG spokeswoman Saskia van der Ree.<BR/><BR/>Earlier in the week, the Cabinet declined suggestions from lawmakers to ban the program, saying that would amount to censorship."fairenuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417056285199589032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18488065.post-49083777974648008222007-06-01T22:14:00.000+00:002007-06-01T22:14:00.000+00:00Good to hear you doing well and having your 'wheez...Good to hear you doing well and having your 'wheeze' checked out etc ...<BR/><BR/>Well about the donor show which is supose to offer a kidney as a prize etc aparantley I read on Kidney Patient Group IS aparantley a sick. hoax!!!!!!!!!! :O ggrrrrr although got everyone talking about teh show etc think its insensativity etc outweights the promotion it may have done.. although sure people may have different views...<BR/><BR/>Bet was so emotional to see staff etc that have become friends and soo good for them to see you looking so well.<BR/><BR/>take care have a good weekend <BR/>(((hugz))) Elaine mum to Rach (kidney transplant 19mnths ago...)xxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18488065.post-25720417572137052592007-06-01T21:45:00.000+00:002007-06-01T21:45:00.000+00:00Oh I do love your totally unscientific explanation...Oh I do love your totally unscientific explanations, they are utterly genius! ;o) Hope the thingumyjig and the whatsit can sort out the doodah. Just don't ever comntemplate going into medicine Em ;o)<BR/>Love you! xxxEmmiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18315321641737130073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18488065.post-9215272187371968492007-06-01T19:05:00.000+00:002007-06-01T19:05:00.000+00:00Happy, happy days xHappy, happy days xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com