Liver4SheilaYoung

02/16/2024

Help support Heritage Ottawa and own this unique item. Our Online Auction is underway, and we're offering a rare treat. One of Ottawa's first architectural guides by Hal Kalman and John Roaf, Exploring Ottawa -- now out of print -- can be yours to enjoy or gift to someone special. Register and bid on item #55:
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Our Online Auction is underway, and we're offering a rare treat. One of Ottawa's first architectural guides by Hal Kalman and John Roaf, Exploring Ottawa -- now out of print -- can be yours to enjoy or gift to someone special. Register and bid on item #55:
https://event.auctria.com/c50c1db8-7dac-4cf4-9ce3-de2aa03a1472/aa6cd270-8751-11e9-a741-3fcfcb35cbb0

02/16/2024

Amazing one of a kind opportunities to speak with knowledgeable experts on a range of fascinating topics such as Asian foreign affairs, international travel/outdoor adventures from canoeing in Canada to walking long-distant trails in Portugal on offer for 1 more day at Heritage Ottawa Online Auction. What are you waiting for? Bid now until Saturday at 3 pm.

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN ASIA? DO YOU LOVE THE OUTDOORS? If you said "yes" to either question, then our unique "COFFEE WITH AN EXPERT" sessions are for you. Charles Burton knows all about China, while James Trottier is a North Korea expert. Jim Stone will do anything to get you into a canoe, while Gilles and Bibiane Séguin are keen to get you long distance walking. You can bid on any of these sessions (Items 91, 16, 33 and 89) offered in our !

Help us raise funds in support of the work Heritage Ottawa does to help maintain and integrate Ottawa's heritage buildings, neighbourhoods, and landscapes into city planning/development plans. https://event.auctria.com/c50c1db8-7dac-4cf4-9ce3-de2aa03a1472/aa6cd270-8751-11e9-a741-3fcfcb35cbb0

02/11/2024

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02/07/2024

THE SUSPENSE IS OVER! The AUCTION CATALOGUE is now open where you can peruse over 130 items before we go live on Feb. 11. No scrambling at the last minute! Check it out here: https://event.auctria.com/c50c1db8-7dac-4cf4-9ce3-de2aa03a1472/aa6cd270-8751-11e9-a741-3fcfcb35cbb0
Please share with friends!

12/17/2023

Rogers TV kindly recorded the lecture series on Ottawa's history given by Phil Jenkins for the Historical Society of Ottawa in April 2023. The first episode will premiere on Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 7:30pm, with repeat broadcasts throughout the weekend.  Once an episode premier...

12/04/2023

About a year ago, this man, Annie Prescott's husband, gave the gift of life to me, a selfless altruistic act of Living Liver Donation with the UHN Ajmera Transplant Centre.
As the recipient of his anonymous donation, it was the best Christmas gift - the gift of life for which I am forever 🙏 grateful. Anonymous no longer, shared with permission by Daniel Allan Farris. Please see Annie's post below. For more information on the UHN Liver Donor Program, you may visit:

At UHN, we strive to deliver Compassionate Care & Caring. Learn more about the services and supports that are available to you throughout your journey.

01/06/2023

Sheila's success story in today's Ottawa Citizen!

Though Sheila Young doesn't know the identity of her liver donor, she knows they were at the Toronto hospital at the same time.

01/03/2023

We have a wonderful update!
Sheila received a liver transplant from an anonymous living liver donor! Under the care of the Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN, Sheila had a smooth recovery.
The day after arriving home, her phone alarm went off at 6 p.m. “Oh!” She exclaimed. “It’s Monday! My dance class is on now.” Propping her iPad on the dining room table, she embarked on her friend’s hour and a half online contemporary dance class. She'd been participating since Covid started. Some moves were done standing, some while seated and the cool down laying on the floor! Enjoy the video below. The miracle of life after transplant.
Big new year blessings to Sheila’s donor, of course, to Florentia, who so generously and cheerily helped daily during the post-hospital weeks at the Chelsea Hotel in Toronto, and to Orley - Sheila’s “Number One Rock” - and to all of you who have kept Sheila in your thoughts and prayers throughout! To each and every one of you who helped to spread the word about Sheila's need for a donor: THANK YOU!
Sheila's need for a living donor was on the front page of the Ottawa Citizen in March. A follow up story will be hot off the press any day now.

05/04/2022

💚Deep gratitude for your continuing to share & to help me reach a Living Liver Donor Angel. 💚

*please share*
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to everyone who is helping to spread the word about my need for a living liver donor with blood type O+ or O- between the ages of 16 and 60. I’m grateful to you. The transplant centre has told me that a donor has not yet been found.

My focus has been on what I can do to stay healthy. Positive thinking and actions bring joy. So I continue to enjoy cooking for a healthy diet. On the days when I have energy, I have continued to learn T’ai Chi with Ottawa’s Dovercourt Community Centre and to enjoy Modern Jazz with the Toronto Dance Collective.

Stories of living organ donors and of their champions are inspiring. They are truly angels. I have been learning more about myself and others through sharing my and others' life stories.

I continue to read and listen to life stories by Canadian writers—Recently, On the Border: Twenty Life Stories From Four Continents by Paul Bennett, Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Em and Vi by Kim Thuy. And currently: A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell, What Strange Paradise by Omar L. Akkad, and Five Little Indians by Michelle Good. Above all, it is the human bonds of love that shine through these life stories.

I continue to write my life story. This time as a potential living organ donor recipient. Expressive writing has proven benefits for healing and awareness. I took a sneak peek at Dr. Sharon Bray’s webinar, Expressive Writing for those on their Transplant Journey, and their Caregivers: https://youtu.be/qca7JWjNTDo. I look forward to participating in Sharon’s May Webinar, hosted by Paula Neves.

👉👉 If you are interested in applying to become my living liver donor, please visit: https://www.uhn.ca/Transplant/Living_Donor_Program/Pages/living_liver_donor.aspx. There is an 11-page health history. Completing and submitting this health history is your application. 👈👈

Anyone can help by sharing my story.

If you’d like answers to any questions about living liver donation, contact:
Centre for Living Organ Donation at UHN
Phone: 416 340 5400
Email: livingorgandonation@UHN.ca
Website: https://www.uhn.ca/Transplant/Living_Donor_Program/Centre_for_Living_Organ_Donation

You can ask questions anonymously to learn more about living liver donation. Communications between a potential living donor and donor team are confidential and not shared with the recipient.

The UHN Centre for Living Donation hosts a monthly on-line information session for Potential Living Liver Donors. The next one is on Tuesday, May 10, 12-1 p.m.: https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/the-centre-for-living-organ-donation-at-uhn-18428442380.

Thank you so much to anyone who applies and spreads the word. I am deeply grateful to you.