Discussing Donation

As you step into the new year, do you have trouble with New Year’s resolution ideas? Well, we challenge you to choose the word “life” or the phrase the “gift of life” as your one intention to focus on throughout the year. Daily, here at Donor Alliance we strive to save lives through organ and tissue donation and transplantation. The…

In November, we celebrate Eye Donation Month, a time to remind you that giving the gift of sight is something almost everyone can do. People’s lives are positively changed through eye donation. We invited our partners at the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank to write a guest blog about eye donation this month. What is Eye Donation? Eye tissue donation…

Annually, from Friday to Sunday two weeks before Thanksgiving, National Donor Sabbath is observed. This observance seeks to include places of worship in promoting donation as well as a space to honor organ donors. Faith leaders from many religions, donor families, transplant recipients, and donation and transplantation professionals participate in services to increase awareness about the lifesaving gifts passed to…

October is Healthy Lung Month, a time to shine a light on the harm that can happen to lungs and increase overall awareness about lung disease. Currently, more than 1,000 people in the United States are on the waitlist for a lifesaving lung transplant, requiring lung transplant surgery. According to the Organ Procurement Transplant Network, so far in 2022, 23…

We often think of the heart when we talk about organ donation in general. The heart symbolizes love. But for others, a heart holds a much deeper meaning. For those few individuals who have received a heart transplant, it symbolizes the difference between life and death, and every thumping beat is a second chance at living a full life. For…

What is the Spirit of the West? In a tribute to the hardworking men and women that helped establish the American West, the U.S. Senate has declared July 23, 2022, the National Day of the American Cowboy. Long before organ and tissue donation and transplantation was medically possible, there existed the idea of the “Spirit of the West.” While this…