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Every April during Donate Life Calendar month, we plant a pinwheel garden to laurels each lifesaving organ transplant performed at the Ohio Land Wexner Medical Centre since 1967. This April nosotros volition found xi,500 pinwheels!

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1 organ donor can relieve viii lives and ameliorate the lives of upward to 50 more through tissue donation.

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Donors' kidneys don't become to original recipients in v-way substitution at Ohio State.

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106,000 Americans are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant– more than plenty to fill Ohio Stadium.

Why cull to exist an organ donor?

Transplantation is now considered a standard medical handling for a wide multifariousness of conditions and the need is great. More than 106,000 Americans are waiting for a lifesaving transplant today. Sadly, approximately 20 times each day a man, woman or child dies for lack of an available organ. They are waiting for someone like you to say "aye" to donation.

One person can potentially save eight lives through organ donation. Organs which tin can be donated include the centre, lungs, kidneys, liver, pancreas and small-scale bowel.

In that location are two options for organ donation: deceased donation and living donation.

  1. Deceased Donation: anyone 16 years of age or older can annals with the Ohio Donor Registry to legally authorize to exist an organ donor. It's not comfortable to consider your own death. Simply did you know that less than 1% of registered donors actually qualify to donate upon their death? This is because deceased donation only occurs when the donor passes away in a fashion in which brain decease occurs. Simply about one out of a hundred individuals in the United States will die through the process of encephalon death and take the potential for organ donation. Since this percentage is and so small, it is vital that everyone speak upwards and say "yep" to organ donation. Acquire more than about deceased donation from Lifeline of Ohio.
  2. Living Donation (kidney and liver): a salubrious person tin cull to give a lifesaving gift of a kidney or lobe of their liver to a person in need. Living donors live just as long as non-donors and are back to normal activities in six to viii weeks. Learn more than about living kidney donation and living liver donation at Ohio State's Comprehensive Transplant Center.

Consider organ donation and create a lasting legacy of life - be aBuckeye for LIFE!

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Buckeye Nation supports organ and tissue donation!

Yous, too tin get a 'Buckeye for Life' by registering your conclusion as an organ donor at the Ohio BMV website:

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April is Donate Life month - Learn more about our annual Pinwheel Garden

Every April the front plaza of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center becomes a beautiful tribute to the power of organ donation. Transplant recipients and volunteers plant thousands of pinwheels, each representing a lifesaving transplant performed at Ohio State since 1967.

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Understanding the need for organ and tissue donors

Not every death results in donation. In 2021, 641 Ohioans shared the souvenir of life through organ donation at the time of their decease. With 106,000 Americans in need of a lifesaving organ transplant, the number of patients waiting significantly exceeds the number of organs available.

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There are many myths surrounding organ and tissue donation. Get the facts!

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Pinwheel flag honoring private donors who gave the "souvenir of life"

Equally key Ohio's only adult transplant center, Ohio State'south Wexner Medical Center is committed to raising awareness for organ donation. To recognize each individual who gives the extraordinary "gift of life" upon their death at Ohio State's Wexner Medical Middle, our pinwheel flag will be raised on the forepart plaza of Ohio State'due south Wexner Medical Middle in their laurels.

The ever-turning pinwheel symbolizing the "souvenir of life" has eight spokes supported by one stem, representing the eight lives potentially saved by one hero's decision to be an organ donor.

Iii more than ways to register as an organ donor

Three more ways to register as an organ donor

Our Latest 'Buckeye For Life' News

Organ Donor Stories

Anthony's Story

Ii mothers, friends for over 30 years, are bonded by more than friendship as one mother donates her belatedly son's kidney to her friend's ill son at Ohio Country'southward Wexner Medical Middle through directed donation.

Patty's Story

Run across Lisa Hawley. Her mother Patty Bruck was approachable, gregarious and a die-hard buckeye fan - a person full of life. That life was cut short at age 46 by a brain aneurysm. As a registered organ donor, Patty donated her liver, heart and both kidneys.

Mike'south Story

Meet Linda Corea. Her son Mike was born with a liver condition, receiving a transplant at age 13. Due to an accident before graduation from Ohio Land, Mike became i of a scattering of people to be both an organ recipient and an organ donor.

Helpful Links

  • Lifeline of Ohio
  • Donate Life Ohio
  • United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
  • OSU Comprehensive Transplant Center
  • Almanac Pinwheel Garden
  • Good for you State Alliance - Expanding Transplant Access

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