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Organ Donation Law Changes To ‘Opt-Out’ Today is a big day in the transplant world. 20th May 2020. The date that the presumed consent law comes into effect (for the UK) also known as Max and Keira’s Law. I like a good date. Not a romantic date, although one of those would be nice too, especially considering the current climate. But a date which looks good written down numerically. No
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Organ Donation Law Changes After many(!) weeks in hospital, I got to spend six days at home! Yes, six whole days! Within two days of coming off the ivs, my sinuses flared up again and as per usual started infecting my chest. At this time I was connected by BBC Radio Oxford to give to see if I would be willing to give an interview. This would be a follow
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Organ Donation Awareness Feedback In the following days after my TV and Radio interviews, I had a few people say they had seen them or seen the article in the Oxford Mail. The headline makes me laugh as it specifically says I need one lung – I don’t mean to be greedy, but I kinda need two really or there’s no point! A couple of people said they didn’t realise
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With less than 24 hours notice, I was up and off to speak to BBC Radio Oxford. I knew I had to be there for my interview at 10am and that I would be speaking about my experiences on the transplant list, but other than that I didn’t know what to expect! My boyfriend gave me the tip to warm up my mouth (!) before arriving to help loosen up
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In September last year I saw a post on one of the transplant Facebook groups asking for people waiting for lung transplants to help in organ donation awareness promotion. I’ve previously been quite reserved and shy about telling my story, but I figured if I was willing to receive an organ, I better change my attitude! I gave a radio interview to Jack FM which was a momentum fail. I’m
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