The Rules Organ Donors Need to Know

Ep 237

Guest:  Hailey Cheema

Headline:  Organ Donation

 

The impact we make on life is determined by our responses to the events that affect us. Do we crumble, do we rise up, do we determine to change the way of the world to improve the lives of others?

 

That brings us to our guest today, who as a teenage girl, experienced the slow deterioration of her grandfather’s life due to failing kidneys. Sadly his life was cut shorter than it needed to be, robbing Hailey, her family and all of us of the incredible contributions he still wanted to make.

 

In response, Hailey was determined to change the lives of thousands of people affected with kidney disease. She became an organ transplant crusader. She started by talking to anyone who would listen. Now she is leading the charge to introduce the issue of organ transplantation into the high school health curriculum.

 

She says it is important that we all appreciate the gift of organ transplantation along with the legal obligations required to ensure your wishes are fulfilled. For example, did you know that your family can deny the donation of your organs upon your death even though you have completed an organ donation card?

 

We invited Hailey Cheema to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the myriad details associated with organ transplantation.

 

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