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May 2013

Meeting May 2nd

June 2013
Meeting June 6th
 

 

Get ready for the 2nd Annual Queen City Mods & Rockers Rally: Saturday June 1st - This event benefits our organization. Volunteers are needed to work at the event handing out information on becoming an organ donor. Last year was the first year and they are going to help raise money for our organization again! This is a fun motorcycle and scooter rally being held at the Triumph of Cincinnati motorcycle dealership (the old John Nolan Ford dealership in Pleasant Ridge). See the Volunteers link at Queen City Mods & Rockers Rally Web Site


Journey for the Heart

Journey for the Heart is a non-commercial web site recounting one mother's thirteen year journey with her son through the multiple challenges of congenital heart disease that led to a heart transplant and eventual death, where she discovered the endless provisions of her limitless God. It includes an audio pod cast and blog. The author, Elizabeth Mitchell, has just been named the 2007 Florida Christian Writer's Association Writer of the Year.

  • Visit their web site
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    Upset Tummy?

    This PDF article speaks to the importance of keeping your doctor informed about stomach upset problems and managing side effects of transplant medications.
    GI (gastrointestinal) upset is one of the more common, but less severe side effects caused by some transplant medications.

  • GI Upset PDF Doc
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    Are You Donation Savvy?

    This PDF details how to join the Ohio Donor Registry. Many organs and tissues can be donated to help save the lives of those in need. Please consider joining the registry so that you can help extend the lives of your fellow citizens.

  • Donation Information PDF Doc
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    April 2013 Newsletter:

    Read an online version of our newsletter that was mailed out.

  • APRIL 2013 PDF
  • MAY 2013 PDF
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    Books Of Interest


    "Transplant"
    A novel by John A. Elefteriades, MD. Medical Fiction, Bending medical ethics. A fast read that keeps pages turning.


    "Cold Hands, Warm Heart"
    By Jill Wolfson A novel of teens going through transplants.

     

     

    Personal Stories

    A Change Of Heart

    On Easter Sunday, March 31, 1991, I had a change of heart – literally!  On that date I was the joyful recipient of a heart transplant.  A procedure that had become almost routine to the medical profession was an answer to prayer to me in the form of a 20th century miracle.

     







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