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I wanted to forward this on to you to give you the opportunity to share
your stories and
to participate in raising donor awareness (and to exercise your excellent
writing
skills!).
If you know of anyone who I may have missed in this email please pass
this information
along or have them contact me so that I can forward this to them.
If you have questions about the process you can contact Andrea Gregg.
Her contact
information is at the bottom of the email.
Angela Wagner
206-598-2676
From: Andrea Gregg
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:19 PM
Subject: Exciting opportunity for transplant
recipients!
Floragraph of Johnathan Sim and his family.
The 2008 Donate Life float, "Life Takes Flight"
On January 1st, 2008, in Pasadena, California,
a beautiful float featuring four hot air
balloons headed down Colorado Boulevard to the
cheers of thousands of on-lookers. The
faces of 40 donors floragraphs attached to the
balloons smiled down at the 24 recipients
riding on the float. The Donate LifeSM float,
"Life Takes Flight", won a judges award for
most inspirational in the 119th Tournament of
Roses Parade. On January 1st, 2009 a
LifeCenter Northwest donor will be honored and
we hope that one of your transplant
recipients will be riding the float and hearing
the cheers.
Astellas is sponsoring a national essay contest
to select 5 transplant recipients who will
travel to Pasadena and join the float riders,
all expenses paid. We would like your help
in promoting the opportunity.
The link in the message copied below provides
the details and further links to past
winning essays.
Astellas officially launched their 4th Annual
'Ride of a Lifetime' contest, which provides
an opportunity for five transplant recipients
to ride on the Donate Life float in the 2009
Rose Parade. Once again, the 2009 contest will
require transplant recipients to write a
short essay of 500 words or less describing how
their life has been transformed by
transplantation. Patients will have until June
13, 2008 to submit their essay through
www.transplantexperience.com or via mail (see
your transplant center for entry forms).
The Astellas judging panel is looking forward
to reading all of the essays!
The media exposure we can generate for donation
is huge. Last year, the Living Legacy
Foundation honored Johnathan Sim and his family.
His image was depicted in a floragraph
and the story was covered by local television
stations and print media. Just imagine the
coverage we could get with the addition of a
recipient as a rider. Living Legacy
Foundation will promote donation activities surrounding
our participation in the Rose
Parade with press releases and media outreach.
It would be wonderful to be able to tell
the stories of both a donor and a recipient.
We encourage you to tell transplant recipients
about this exciting opportunity. And hope
you have clients who would like to enter the
contest.
Sincerely,
Andrea Gregg
Shelby Slagle
Manager of Community Affairs
Hospital Services Program Manager
Living Legacy Foundation at LifeCenter Northwest
LifeCenter Northwest
(425) 201-6568 | Cell (425)
301-6440
(425) 201-6636 | Cell (206) 604-6330
andrea.gregg@livinglegacyfoundation.org
Shelbys@lcnw.org
Tuesday April 10 at 1:30pm and 8:30pm
Thursday April 12 at 7:30am
Saturday April 14 at 1:30pm
Sunday April 15 at 8:30pm
Mark and Kathy expect to attend the April meeting (they live in Alaska). There may be a possibility that we can watch the show as a group at the meeting.
The Associated Press
PORTLAND Ñ Hercules, the
fat cat who became famous after getting stuck in a doggie door while plundering
another pet's food, has found his rotund self heading for the big-time.
A video of Hercules stuck in the
door became a Web sensation. Martha Stewart Living will feature him in
an upcoming issue in an article about how to help pets lose weight, which
Hercules has done, sort of.
He may become spokescat for a low-cal
cat food and a Canadian admirer has made a belated try to buy Hercules'
sperm for breeding purposes. Unhappily, Hercules went to the vet some time
back.
But Hercules seems happiest with
his owner, Geoff Earnest, who had given him up for lost.
"I think he's one of the best things
that's ever happened to me," Earnest said. "He's like a brother to me.
I just love him to death."
He was Earnest's constant companion
for four years.
But Earnest, 31, has cystic fibrosis,
and in June flew to Seattle for a rare but lifesaving double-lung transplant.
A housesitter watched Hercules,
but the cat disappeared and Earnest assumed his beloved pet was dead.
But Hercules was doing just fine,
sneaking into a stranger's garage, pigging out on pet food and leaving
through a doggie door until the day he got stuck Ñ and was videotaped.
He landed at the Oregon Humane
Society, which alerted reporters and Hercules leaped, sort of, to stardom.
In January Earnest saw Hercules
on television.
These days, Earnest speaks often
to schools and community groups and sometimes the cat tags along.
Earnest, who was told at 29 that
he would die without a lung transplant, talks of his experience and encourages
others to become donors.
And Hercules always gets a plug
because he and the cat, he says, have something in common. "He came back
from the dead like I did," he said.
Earnest walks Hercules for exercise
every morning. Hercules has dropped about a pound but still weighs 19.6
pounds.
His veterinarian, Dr. Joshua Horner,
says the cat could stand to drop three or four more.
But to Earnest, he's fine the way
he is.
"He's just a big, big cat," he
said. "I don't want to see him get any smaller."
There is a news story on TV, today, January 12, concerning
Geoff Earnest , a June 5th, 2006 transplantee. Seems his cat Hercules,
AKA Goliath, went missing about 6 months ago. He had been stealing cat
food from a neighbor by entering their garage through a "doggie" door.
That is, until he grew to 20 lbs and got caught in the door. He was taken
to the pound and the story made the local Portland news. By then, he had
been named Goliath by the pound or the news media. Geoff saw his cat Hercules
on the TV news, and they were reunited. Just a brief mention of Geoff's
transplant was made. If I have made any factual errors in this item, it
is because I am trying to remember what I heard on two newscasts. Komo
4 News carried the story; included footage of Geoff. King 5 News also carried
the story but apparently they didn't know that the cat's owner had been
found. The King 5 story can be found at http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FAT_CAT?SITE=KING&SECTION=MIDWEST&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-01-12-16-43-47
Nov 28th At UWMC room BB1602
Dec. 26th American Lung Association of Washington
3rd and Cedar Seattle
Jan. 30th at UWMC room CC408
Feb. 27th American lung Association of Washington
March 27th UWMC CC408
April 24th American Lung Ass.
May 29th UWMC CC408
June 26th American Lung Ass.
July no meeting
August no meeting
Additional information about the
IPF Support Group
My name is John Lee. I am a double lung transplant receipent 3/16/03 at the UWMC, Seattle. Soon after I received my transplant I began working on the creation of NorthWest Lung Inc. www.northwest-lung.org .Early this year I received aproval from the IRS for 501 c 3 status.
Our mission is to provide residence housing for lung transplant patients who are required to relocate to Seattle as a condition of being placed on the transplant list.
We currently have one 1 br unit. We need many more.
Funding for the organization is currently coming from a small business I and my wife personally own. Johnnys NASCAR Gift Shop www.johnnysnascar.com .
We are looking a leasing another unit soon.
The store's capability, as it is a small operation, is limited and 2 units will tax us a lot. Therefore, I am currently looking for funding from any source, especially from established philenthropic foundations.
This presents a bit of a problem as I am just a dyslexic who flunked the 5th grade, the 7th grade 3 times, quit 4 weeks into the 8th grade and who took until I was in my mid thirtys to graduate from a two year college. My forte IS NOT government type forms and rules and regulations.
I am working with Angela Wagner at the USMC on placement of persons in our units. I meet her for the first time yesterday, Wed 7/26/03. She suggested that I e-mail uwlung.org in the hopes that you could put out info on your network and they would send info to all they know etc etc. in an effort to locate some one who has experience with "Fountation Grant Writing" will donate their time to help our mission.
We have no paid employees at this time. We have very little over head. All of the expensises to creat the organization, web site etc has been paid. We are positioned to be able to apply an overwhelming majority of the funding to provide actual direct help for pre/post lung transplant patients.
Those persons who's lives you will help thank you.
John Lee
President
NorthWest Lung Inc.support@northwest-lug.org
Here they are! Photos of Bill Probstfield's transplant procedure, as promised by Bill at our April support meeting. http://www.leanners.com/BillsTX.htm Thanks for sharing these with us; Bill. If anyone doesn't know who Bill is, you can check him out on the 2005 Transplant page. For larger images but slower loading, you can go to http://www.uwlung.org/BillProbstfieldTP.html
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