Welcome to our Organization
The Ontario East Transplant Support Group’s mission is to provide support, knowledge and encouragement to those who are pre or post Organ or Tissue Transplant. In addition the OETSG seeks to inform the public through seminars and presentations about the need and benefits to others of organ donation.
Picture worth a Thousand Words
A picture says a thousand words, so we have included a pic of some of our friends in Ontario Team Transplant as they attended the Canadian Transplant ′Olympics′ in Edmonton, Alberta. Don’t they seem like a pretty ordinary group of people, smiling, and ready to welcome you into their company. What you would not know by looking at this picture is that each of these people owes their life to having received the "Gift of Life" in the form of a major organ transplant.
Once a month the Ontario East Transplant Support Group (OETSG for short), a non profit group of transplant recipients and supporters of giving the "Gift of Life" through organ donation, come together for friendship, mutual support, and to discuss how they can help others who are faced with having to have an organ transplant to survive. In addition, they discuss ways to broadcast the urgent need to encourage the public to consider signing an Organ Donor Card, and perhaps
provide the "Gift of Life" to another. We say "perhaps", because the circumstances required to make organs available for transplant are unique. A signed Organ Donor Card is no guarantee that the gift can be made, BUT it is a VITAL step in the process. There are various organizations in Canada who provide information to assist in taking that personal decision and they can be found on the links page.
Inspiration
We hope that this web site might provide information to help you in your current situation; might inspire you to be the best that you can be, even under present circumstances; might help you to live life as fully, as charitably and as exuberantly as you are able, and to live in harmony with those with whom we share this wonderful ′paradise on earth′.
For some stories from the Donors family or Recipent's point of view, please click the tabs at the top of this page to view our most current stories.
Registered Canadian Charity # 83524 0128 RR0001
Latest news
WORLD'S OLDEST TRANSPLANT?
In a report from Reuters, Oslo Bernt Aune’s transplanted cornea has been in use for a record 123 years — since before the Eiffel Tower was built. It is possibly the oldest eye in the world. The owner, Aun...
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CHECK OUT THE NEW FORUM SECTION
After a great amount of discussion we have added a FORUM section to our web site which allows both public and private (OETSG members only and invited guests) access to the discussion area.
Use this site to talk about yo...
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VALENTINE'S DAY STORY
THIS VALENTINE'S DAY TALK TO YOUR LOVED ONE'S ABOUT ORGAN DONATION
Sign an organ donor card and talk to your family about your wishes
February 12, 2008 - Toronto, ON - Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) i...
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