LifeSource: Organ & Tissue Donation
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Volunteer Training
Join us for a volunteer training where we will discuss the process of donation, key messages, tips for sharing your personal story and review available materials. Donor family members, transplant recipients, caregivers and others are invited to learn alongside and from one another.
6:30 -8:30 pm
LifeSource
2550 University Avenue West
Suite 315 South
St. Paul, MN 55114
Please RSVP to Jeff Richert, Community Advocacy Coordinator, at 651.603.7863.
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Hi Jeff,
I just received my second kidney transplant a little over a month ago and everything is going splendidly well for the most part. My first transplant twelve years ago was from a living related donor. The second transplant was from a deceased donor because I was unable to find a very good match for a living donor of any kind this time around.
Jeff, I was wondering if the volunteer training at your Lifesource offices in St. Paul is going to happen soon or if it has already happened. I would like to volunteer for your organization in many ways if I can. I looked at the possibilities on the web site. I am a pretty good public speaker and speak passionately and from the heart for causes that I am passionate about and strongly need a voice and advocate to spread its mission through a person’s voice through their experiences; and I have done that in the past. I am a member of the board of my therapeutic horseback riding program that I first participated in during the first few years that I got back into riding again. After three years I became too advanced and received private lessons through the instructor of the riding program. Anyhow, I would love to speak to high school and college students about organ and tissue donation, attending speaking engagements, definitely telling my story to anyone who will listen to convince them to become organ and tissue donors for without them I would be on dialysis forever or possibly dead. I also would speak to church or other groups as well and if you’d like someone to speak on Lifesource’s behalf in front of the media; I have been interviewed by a reporter by Kare 11 TV about the riding program. I wrote a letter to one of the reporter’s about the riding program and how it has affected me in such a positive way. So if you could respond back to me I would appreciate it.
My contact information is: sarah.me.may@gmail.com. My home and cell phone numbers are: (612) 872-4933 and (651) 724-2231. If I haven’t missed the deadline for the volunteer training program, and there will be printed information via a booklet or handouts, I am mostly blind and will need them in alternative format. I am a Grade 2 braille reader. If you are unable to get the materials in braille to me before the training session, If you have a scanner, you could scan them into the computer and send them to me in a text document format. Please don’t send it to me in PDF format, because my screen reading software on my computer is unable to open and read those forms of documents. I am very excited to hopefully become a volunteer through Lifesource and spread the word about the wonderful “gift of life!”
Sincerely,
Sarah