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A living nightmare

It’s been a week since I’ve had my LVAD and I cannot explain how painful this is. The day after my operation I was asked to get out of bed and I was so nervous. I couldn’t really even move and they wanted me to get out of bed and sit out… I stepped out of bed and after a couple of seconds I had a loss of consciousness. I woke up, on the bed being slapped in the face by my nurses and them screaming “KJ,KJ,KJ, WAKE UP KJ,KJ” and it felt like a blur. When I was unconscious I heard the sound of a helicopter. I think my nurses realised it was too soon for me to be getting out of bed and they told me I now had to have bed rest for the next 3 days.

I feel like the morphine doesn’t even help anymore. When my family comes to visit me, I cant even speak to them because im in so much pain. I finally started using my phone today, I haven’t touched it since before going into the operation. I’ve started to eat more and am feeling a little better but I still feel like shit. I finally got all my tubes taken out yesterday and feel a little more free but taking them out was very uncomfortable.

Everything apart from my energy levels is looking good so far and everyones been saying thats because I’m still in so much pain. Hopefully I’ll be transferred out of ICU in a couple of days and be put in the general ward. Once im there, I can start my physio sessions and then hopefully build up, start to walk again and then be discharged!

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 The importance of being an organ donor! 

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The fact that signing up to be an Organ donor you could save up to eight human beings from dying is a bigger positive than you can imagine. Saving a humans life is one of the things people can sometimes only imagine of doing. Through the act of Organ Donation, YOU can change this. 

 

Organ Donation gives everyone the ability to save a life. In fact, your eyes could help someone you’ve never met see the world. Your organs could make someone on the edge of dying get their breath back. Organ Donation mostly takes place after a signed up Organ Donor has passed. There is an extremely large gap between the number of registered donors compared to those awaiting Organ Donation world wide. 

 

The way I look at it is like this - when you were a child, you probably had the idea of one day wanting to be a Super-hero. Once you pass, you will no longer be needing those organs and they could be put to great use by saving another human beings life. When a person receives an Organ Transplant, not only do you become their hero, but you also become a hero to the many people involved in his/her life. 

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