Danielle Mason
Soc 202-03
10/12/12
In the article I read from BBC News a woman named Kaylee celebrates
25 healthy years since her heart transplant at the age of only a few months. Kaylee was the first successful infant heart
transplant in the UK. To this day Kaylee spends her time working as a sales
associate and is a participant in world transplant games and raises awareness for
the need of organ donors of all ages. In
the 25 years Kaylee has lived a healthy life with her new heart, 112 other
babies in the UK have had successful heart transplants. As great as it is to
hear babies surviving from heart transplants, in the UK 2 babies have died
because of a shortage of donated organs and 6 have fell extremely ill. Kaylee
and the doctors she has been working with are trying to stress the importance
of people becoming themselves or allowing their loved ones to become organ
donors to save lives. I myself am an organ donor and I don’t see why anybody
would turn down the opportunity to give organs, blood, or anything at that
matter to help save another human beings life, since they obviously won’t be
using those parts once they die. This
article has a worldwide affect because people die all over the world because
they aren’t able to obtain organs vital to life. I think that if the need for
organ donors is stressed to the maximum maybe people around the world will
start to see how they can help and understand that the need for organs is a
increasing problem. I know that I wasn’t aware that hospitals were in need of
more organs so I’m sure many others aren’t informed either. It is the job of
the knowledgeable to spread the word for the cause and help the people that are
in need of organs and may be in a life or death struggle without them.
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