DONOR | Tammy's Story

Tammy Crisp

Glenn Miller Needs A LIVING Liver DONOR

You can be the one to give Glenn THE GIFT OF LIFE!!!

Hello, My name is Tammy, and I have been blessed to be living my life, for past 16 years, alongside one of the kindest and most loving person I know.. Glenn and I enjoy hiking, camping, fishing, watching New York Giants and the Boston Red Sox games, and most of all, sharing all of our experiences with our grandchildren..
One of the things i most admire about Glenn, is the willingness to drop everything and help a friend however he can.. He has helped countless number of addicts and alcoholics change their lives for the better.. He has so many who care and love him!!

Since Glenn was diagnosed with liver failure, he has had three separate procedures to remove tumors.. He also has to take trips to several different doctors every three months to make sure that he is still qualified to receive a liver from a living donor.. I know that this affects his physical and emotional well being.. He puts up a good front, but I can see the stress and anxiety, of having liver cancer and the unknown, affects him..
If Glenn receives a splice of liver from a living donor, it will give him opportunity to continue being there for his family and friends and continue to give back to the community.

DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU A LIVER CAN REGENERATE LIKE A STARFISH??
That means:
you can be a living donor.. Your liver will grow back.. Isn't that amazing?? I would've never guessed that could happen. Being on the living donor transplant list, will increase Glenn's chances for long term survival.
I AM HUMBLY ASKING FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE HIM!!!
If you can't donate physically donate a piece of your liver, Please help share Glenn's story and spread the word online. We will be forever grateful for any help you can give him!!
Thank You
Tammy

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Become Glenn Miller's Donor

If you are considering being a living donor please use links below to contact Glenn Miller's Transplant Center. Begin by completing the donor questionnaire

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Yale New Haven Transplantation Center

333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT, 06520

(866) 925-3897 Email Transplant Center

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Medical expenses for living organ donors are 100% covered, and inquires from potential donors are 100% confidential! Contact the Transplant Center to learn more about living donation.

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Share the Importance of Living Donation

Liver transplantation has been a successful treatment and standard of care for end-stage liver disease since the early 1980s.

Technical advancements in liver surgery, as well as the liver's tremendous ability to regenerate, have made living donor liver transplantation a life-saving reality.

There are currently 120,000 people waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant in the U.S. Of these, 15,000 await liver transplants.

Although more than 6,000 liver transplants were performed last year, over 1,700 patients died while waiting on the list.

Deceased donor livers are allocated to patients based on how sick they are, determined by their MELD score, where sicker patients receive priority.

Living donation offers patients the option of transplant before they get very sick--regardless of MELD score--significantly decreasing the time they wait for a liver.

Living donation not only saves the life of the recipient; it also frees up a liver for a patient on the waiting list who does not have that option.

The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) and Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD) are numerical, objective scales that allocate available livers to the sickest patients. Patients move up the list as their scores increase.

The first living donor liver transplant took place in 1988. Since then, living donors have continued giving the gift of life and making a difference.

When a recipient has a living donor, the wait time for transplant is shorter and the transplant can be scheduled in advanced when the recipient is in good health and when it is convenient for both the donor and the recipient.

Financial burdens shouldn’t prevent the gift of life. The National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) can offer financial support for living donor travel expenses.

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Liver DONOR NEEDED

I WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL TO RECIEVE A SPLICE OF LIFE!!!

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