Neal Shuterman Organ Donation

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others” (Pericles).

Organ donation is the process of one human being donating his or her organs to another human being in need. Which is very often since on average 22 people die every day while waiting for a transplant. With that being said every 10 minutes a patient is added to the waiting list. While on the waiting list there is no guarantee that the patient will receive a transplant. To top it off there is a 1:8 ratio with organ donation. That means mean one organ donor can save 8 lives. The book “Unwind” by Neal Shuterman explains organ donation in a very unique way. It all started with the “Heartland War” the two armies were fighting
The qualifications are, you must be eighteen years of age. All though you can be a younger donor with a parental consent. It is good to see young and old doing things like this they are saving people’s lives. Referring back to the novel “Unwind” “if more people had been organ donors, unwinding would have never happened .... but people like to keep what’s theirs, even after they’re dead.” ( Shuterman page 224) The donor must also be good in physical and mental health. But most importantly the donor must be free from high blood pressure, cancer, HIV,diabetes, hepatitis, or organ-specific diseases. Once passing all of the qualifications of becoming a donor. The donor will have to complete multiple tests to make sure everything is official. Once the test are complete the doctor and the donor will sit down and have a discussion on what of transplant they want. They have a choice of choosing between liver, heart , kidney, lung, pancreas, thymus, and intestine.Once the donor and doctor have decided on what is being done, they will then go over the process again to make sure they have a mutual
Same rules apply for any other donation. The kidney transplant /donation is the most common among the United States. There are a lot of myths on kidney transplants that why it is super important to let the donor know what they are going to experience before and after the transplant/donation . Some of the cons of a kidney donation, is all the myths that the donor has already heard. Another con is the possible complications the donor can experience after the procedure. But every person is different, so that means each individual will have a different reaction. A kidney transplant can also change the donor life, not for a lifetime just for a short period of time. Example the patient can not drink , must abstain from tobacco and recreational drugs like methamphetamine crack cocaine et cetera. The biggest one of course is death. Which is very unlikely to happen. The chances are 0.06% , that means 1 out of 1,700 die from giving up a kidney. Some of the pros are that the donor will not have a big scar on their body after the procedure. Most doctors tend to use laparoscopic surgery for kidney donors. This means that we make several small incisions to insert a camera and surgical tools to remove the kidney, instead of the traditional large incision. This reduces discomfort, speeds up the recovery process and leaves smaller scars. When the doctor uses this