A Mission Of Hope And Second Chances

Charlie Alexander, President and CEO.

It's not exactly an easy mission for any organization, but THE LIVING LEGACY FOUNDATION (LLF) manages to implement it with a strong dose of hope. For, its mission involves saving lives of those who are so sick that they need a new, donated organ, in order to live a better and more comfortable life, frequently even just to live.

However, the other portion of their mission, the procuring of the transplant-eligible organ can be difficult and heart-rending. It involves approaching family members at the most difficult time of their lives, a time when their loved one is dying suddenly. How they approach these families is key to completing their circle of life.



Of course, there can be a lot of preparatory work and the assistance of health care professionals brought about by the organization's advocacy efforts and educational outreach. Donations and volunteers help them in their work. And their work takes place throughout most of Maryland. The importance of their work is reflected in numbers, as in the numbers of individuals on the transplant waiting list. Maryland alone had 3,794 people on that list on May 18 of this year.

Let's look at an organ transplant recipient. For Marty Maren that need came up suddenly in 2009. He developed liver failure due to acetaminophen (Tylenol) poisoning, giving him only 72 hours to live without a transplant. Even though his prognosis was grim without a transplant, he was placed quickly on the liver transplant list.

It turned out that the first potential transplant, 48 hours in, came when Mr. Maren was not stable enough to receive it, since he had uncontrollable bleeding. That organ went to someone else further down the list. His wife, Michele, questioned the surgeon about any options to stabilize her husband, and was given the option of surgery to remove the liver, with the potential to stop the bleeding and buy him some time, only an additional 48 hours. She agreed to the procedure.

Almost toward the end of his prognostic life span, a liver became available and Mr. Maren had a successful transplant. Like many who are given this second chance at life, he gives back by volunteering at LLF and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Not only that, but he and his wife founded a Maryland chapter of TRIO (Transplant Recipients International Organization), a support group to help others receiving organ transplants.

Information booth at the Annual Celebration of Remembrance.

Consider your own situation and what you might want to do when you see that organ donation card. Do you sign the card, in the case that you have life-saving organs to give? Do you give someone else a chance at life, being able to make contributions to society, and live their lives more comfortably? What do you want to do?

Thanks for information from this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheLLF/about/?ref=page_internal; this article from LLF: https://www.thellf.org/stories-of-hope/stories/showstory/martymaren/; and the above link.

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