Living Donors Online Message Board
Living Donation Discussion and News => Living Donation Forum => Topic started by: RJCF on April 09, 2011, 08:05:32 AM
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This is for those who are in the hopefully rare situation of having lost their partner, friend or family member as a result of living donor transplant.
I lost my husband after donating a kidney to him in 2010, and have felt extremely isolated ever since. So I have just founded this group so that those of us in this rare situation can provide mutual support and understanding to each other. I also hope to increase awareness of issues surrounding living donation so that what happened to us does not happen to others.
(This is not a group for general living donor issues, but is specifically for those bereaved by the process. It is also not intended as a general bereavement forum.)
Anyone who has been involved in a living donation transplant as either a recipient or a donor and lost the person as a consequence is most welcome to join.
The group fully supports the principles of organ donation, including living donation.
The group can be found at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bereavedbylivingdonation/
It is a Yahoo group, so it is necessary to sign up to Yahoo if you have not previously done so, but this should be straightforward.