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Baseball Players Honour Child
NBC news reports that a Webster NY boy who lived 100 months was honored Saturday with 100 innings of baseball, his favorite sport.
Noah Passero died last year while waiting for a heart transplant. He was eight years...
[ Posted on Saturday October 17 - 9:40 pm ][ More... ]
Lung Transplant Stats
Reported last year in
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Twenty-five years after the world's first successful lung transplant was performed in Toronto, a new report shows that the number of lung transplants in Canada has risen ...
[ Posted on Thursday August 27 - 7:31 pm ][ More... ]
TRIP OF A LIFETIME
TRIP OF A LIFETIME
14 States, 7120 kms in 13 days.
Around 1.00 p.m. on Friday July 31st. “Scottie” rode up the driveway to his home after 13 wonderful days travelling with five friends. It was the thi...
[ Posted on Monday August 10 - 8:11 pm ][ More... ]
Death of Founder Member Sylvie Gauthier
Dear Friends,
It is with deep sadness that I have to advise you of the death of Sylvie Gauthier, double lung recipient of August 2002 and founder member of The Ontario East Transplant Support Group. ...
[ Posted on Monday August 10 - 8:09 pm ][ More... ]
OETSG Member on Newswatch at 5:30 in Kingston
One of our OETSG members, Shillane Labbett, appeared in an interview on Newswatch at 5:30 with Anthony Agostino to promote her trip to the World Transplant Games and spread the word on Organ transplants.
She mentions ...
[ Posted on Monday July 27 - 7:30 pm ][ More... ]
Kidney Foundation - Give the Gift of Life Walk
The Kidney Foundation of Canada's Give the Gift of Life Walk is a non-competitive pledge-based walk focused on raising awareness about kidney health and organ donation.
The walk presents an occasion for dialysis ...
[ Posted on Thursday July 16 - 5:02 pm ][ More... ]
RECYCLEME.ORG
TRILLIUM GIFT OF LIFE NETWORK LAUNCHES <a href="http://recycleme.org/en/" target="_blank">RECYCLEME.ORG</a>, AWARENESS CAMPAIGN URGES YOUTH TO CONSIDER ORGAN DONATION
Provocative new ca...
[ Posted on Tuesday April 28 - 11:05 pm ][ More... ]
NOTDAW week and the OETSG
The week of NOTDAW (National Organ & Tissue Donor Awareness Week) was a busy one for the members of the Ontarion East Transplant Support Groups.
In Kingston the OETSG sponsored a luncheon to which many of the city&...
[ Posted on Tuesday April 28 - 10:59 pm ][ More... ]
Completion of Queens Pro Bono Project
The OETSG was approached by the Queen's Law department last year to see if we would be interested in providing a topic for a project for some students as a part of their course.
We thought this would be a great...
[ Posted on Thursday April 23 - 10:57 pm ][ More... ]
COURAGE IS HER NAME
Those of us who have received a lung transplant all went through an exercise routine at TGH "dance class" (apologies to Denyse) as it was lovingly titled by friend Lauri Cashin (now sadly but a memory in the he...
[ Posted on Tuesday December 30 - 9:23 am ][ More... ]
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The question was, 'What would Tom do?'
From the Toronto Star May 6, 2010
It's a difficult question to ask a mother. And, you might think, impossible to answer:
How do you cope with the death of not just one, but two, o...
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OETSG Bike Donation to TGH
OETSG presented a cheque for $6000 to the Transplant Unit Treadmill Room at Toronto General Hospital. The money was used to buy a bike for physiotherapy and an Oxometre to monitor pre/post transplant recipients while th...
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65_REDROSES on CBC
65_REDROSES will Premiere on THE PASSIONATE EYE on CBC News Network (formerly CBC Newsworld) on Monday, Nov.16 at 10pm ET/PT.
For 23-year old Canadian Eva Markvoort (aka 65_redroses, her online pseudonym), the clock i...
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