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 Donors of the Diamond

Posted on Mon, October 11, 2010

Donors of the Diamond: Former Gamecock standout Landon Powell discusses his fight with a Liver Disease and why organ donation is so important to him and his family. Join him and his family along with other celebs at Donors on the Diamond: A Family Evening at the Ballpark to Raise Awareness for Organ &Tissue; Donation. Sunday, November 7, 2010, 5 to 8 PM, Fluor Field, Greenville, SC
Get your tickets online at http://www.donatelifesc.org

 

Comments

Ed Crostic | October 12, 2010 at 4:01 pm

I am trying to come to the event as I would love to meet Landon Powell.  I am a disable veteran so money is a little tight but I will try.  I have had 2 liver transplants in the past 4 years so hopefully I could give him some words of encouragement.

Page | October 12, 2010 at 8:24 pm

Thank you for featuring a story on organ and tissue donation.  Through media support such as yours, awareness can be raised through a positive outlet.  It was truly an inspiring segment!  Thank you again for supporting this cause!

Angie Turner | October 12, 2010 at 8:31 pm

Thank you so much for your part in bringing awareness to organ/tissue donation. My father is alive today because of one family’s selfless gift of life.

Ben Reynolds | October 12, 2010 at 9:17 pm

Organ and tissue dononation is truly the gift of life! One donor can touch so many lives. Thank you for helping to “spread the word” and for your support of this cause.

Nicole Ruffman | October 12, 2010 at 9:50 pm

Thank you for doing this interview on Landon Powell. Through the media, we are able to raise awareness and hopefully get more people to register to become an organ and tissue donor.  My brother was a donor and saved many lives! This was a great segment.

Ed Billings | October 12, 2010 at 9:50 pm

You’re to be commended for spotlighting this event benefitting such a great cause.  I’m a “Donor Dad” and the feeling I experienced from seeing recipients’ lives extended was the deal-breaker in helping me through my grief journey.

Dennis Murphy | October 12, 2010 at 9:53 pm

Thank you for sharing this interview with us. I know the event will be a great success. I am alive today because someone made the choice to be an organ donor. I had a liver transplant in June of 2006 and can tell you personally how important organ donation is.

Jill Simmons | October 12, 2010 at 10:02 pm

Thank you for bringing attention to the organ and tissue donation cause.  I suddenly found myself in desperate need of a transplant last summer, and was blessed to have been given the Gift of Life.

Megan Westberg | October 12, 2010 at 10:09 pm

Thank you very much for helping bring awareness to such an important cause.

Pam Hawver | October 12, 2010 at 10:16 pm

Thank you for your part in helping to bring awareness to organ and tissue donation with this interview.  The media is the perfect forum to spread the word about this very worthwhile cause.  I’m alive today because of the selflessness of a donor mom.

Nancy Bommer | October 12, 2010 at 10:23 pm

Thank you for this interview discussing the importance of education for tissue and organ donation.  As a recipient of two corneas, I am most grateful to the “Gift of Sight” that I have been given as the result of the two loving donor families.

Sandy Roberson | October 13, 2010 at 5:56 am

Thank-you for your continuing support of organ and tissue donation.  As the mom of a liver recipient, this cause is near and dear to my heart and I know that with your help more daughters (sons, fathers and mothers) will receive the gift of life.

Karen Fisher | October 13, 2010 at 6:42 am

Thank you for sharing Landon Powell’s story with the public.  Perhaps a well -known person can make more people aware of the serious need for organ and tissue donation.  I had my transplant almost 7 years ago and from the minute I woke from the surgery, I had a healthy life again.  Transplant are true medical miracles, but the key is finding the organs.

Jim Quill | October 13, 2010 at 8:08 am

Thank you so much for featuring Landon Powell’s story. He speaks for many waiting on for life saving organ/tissue donation. I received a bilateral lung transplant 4 years ago and remain forever grateful to my donor and donor family for the life I now have. I have been blessed to see both of my son’s get married and now enjoy watching my first grandson grow and love life. Yes, organ donation really works! We need everyone to seriously consider organ/tissue donation. Your support has certainly helped to make that happen. Thank You!

Joey Park | October 13, 2010 at 8:21 am

Thank you for highlighting this event.  I am liver recipient and I am very grateful to my donor & his family.  Their decision saved my life.

Katie Burden | October 13, 2010 at 8:31 am

Thanks so much for showing the interview with Landon Powell and his family. Donors on the Diamond will be such a great event and a wonderful opportunity to raise awareness and to continue to educate people regarding organ and tissue donation. My brother, Nick Romano, was an organ donor 2 years ago, and due to his selfless gift of life-he was able to save several lives. Thanks “Your Carolina” for supporting this wonderful cause.

Jane and Alan Sipe | October 13, 2010 at 8:32 am

Our son, Justin, died at the age of 23.  He was on a transplant list for 2 years.  He carried a beeper - praying that new lungs would come. There were just not enough organs to supply those on the list.  This is a great event to increase the general public’s awareness of the need for organ/tissue donation.  This promises to be a great event and we will support it in all ways possible to pass on the information.  Keep up the good work!!!!

Jane and Alan Sipe

Allen and Susan Knowlin | October 13, 2010 at 9:34 am

Donors of the Diamond is good to bring about awareness. Thanks for sharing Landon Powell and his Family story.

Sandy Mott | October 13, 2010 at 11:59 am

Thank you for increasing awareness for the need for organ and tissue donation.

Sharon Kearns | October 13, 2010 at 12:33 pm

Thank you so very much for sharing Landon Powell’s story and bringing the issue of organ and tissue donation to the forefront. Donation improves and saves lives. I am alive today solely because of the life-saving gift of a stranger.

Thank you!

Sharon Kearns
Liver Recipient, 2008

Meg Baker | October 13, 2010 at 6:42 pm

Thank you so much for airing the wonderful interview with Landon Powell.  It’s important to not only raise public awareness of the need for organ and tissue donation, but to help people realize that any one of us or our family members could unexpectedly find ourselves in need.  Donation is truly the gift of life.

Kathy Kaloplastos | October 13, 2010 at 6:44 pm

Thanks for your words. I had a liver transplant 8 yrs ago and doing great. I volunteer with LifePoint and DonateLifeSC can’t wait to do some more work with them.


God Bless You.

Sincerely,
Kathy

Mark Walker | October 13, 2010 at 8:17 pm

Thanks for helping to educate the people of South Carolina about the importance of organ and tissue donation. Your story about Landon will help spread the word.

Mark Walker
Donatelife,chairman

Scott Miller | October 13, 2010 at 9:24 pm

Thank you so much for helping spread the word about organ and tissue donation! Through the medias help we can reach more and more people everyday. Your segment on Landon was very touching. Again, Thank You for your support.

Sincerely,
Scott Miller

Mary Feaster | October 13, 2010 at 11:53 pm

Thank you so much for providing much needed information about organ/tissue donation. I never dreamed I would need a kidney but was blessed to receive one 2008.

Anne and Eddie Sellars | October 14, 2010 at 9:32 am

Thanks so much for the segment about the need and the importance of organ donation.  It especially hits home with us.  Our youngest son, Eric, was in a head on crash in 2001, the driver of the car he was in had been drinking, Eric sustained head injuries from which he never recovered.  This happened on Good Friday, April 13, 2001.  Eric lay in a coma at SRHC until Easter morning, April 15th, before he was pronounced brain dead.  We mad the decision to donate Eric’s organs and three lives were saved/made better/changed completely because he lived.  Keep up the good job of awareness.

John Kerce | October 14, 2010 at 10:53 am

That was a great interview and real life story about how important organ and tissue donation is.  Most people never even consider that tissue donation is.  Landon would be have trouble walking without the ACL surgery.  I am a liver transplant recipient, 41/2 years ago, and have a new life, I like to tell people that I have been “born again” physically. I went from deaths doorstep to full time work in 2 months.  Organ donation is truly a gift of life.  I volunteer for Life Point and am always puzzled by the reactions of people when we discuss organ donation with them.  I have seen people hold onto their body with both arms at the mention of organ donation.  Public education is vital and not really there and that program is just the kind of public information we need.

Jackie Park | October 14, 2010 at 11:42 am

Thank you so much for highlighting the importance of organ donation through this segment.  My husband received a life saving liver transplant 5 years ago due to the unselfish gift of a donor and I along with our children will forever be grateful.  Thanks to Landon and his family for his charity event.

Barbara Swanson | October 14, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Through your airing of the very informative and heart warming interview with Landon Powell, many have become more aware of the need for, and the success of, organ and tissue donation. Thank you!

Kristen Mullane | October 14, 2010 at 6:22 pm

What a great interview - I wish I could be at the event. Thank you so much for helping to get the word out there about organ and tissue donation!

Amy Saylors | October 14, 2010 at 10:07 pm

Thank you so much for helping us get the word out about organ and tissue donation. Your interview was great. I will not be able to attend this event, but did put it on facebook to let all my friends know about it.

Sharon Lewis | October 15, 2010 at 12:03 am

THank you so very much for all you do to introduce people to organ and tissue donation. I know something about what it means because 2 yrs ago Sept. 25 my sister’s life was saved by God and a loving, sacrificing donor family who made the decision to donate a loved one’s tissue and organs. My sister’s kidney has been working great from the time the doctors put it in.
Please keep up the good information!

Also, many people have a heart on their driver’s license, but they are not aware that is not enough—- they need to go to every11minutes.org to sign in at the official registry in order to be considered as a donor (or sign up officially at the drivers’ licence office).

Thank you so much!

Sharon L.

Don Holzheimer | October 15, 2010 at 9:33 am

Thank you for bringing to light the critical need for individuals to become organ and tissue donors.  With the help of my donor brother, we just celebrated our 3 year anniversary of our kidney transplant.  I’m certain that if my brother didn’t step up and become a living donor I would still be on dialysis awaiting a donor.

ginny davis | October 18, 2010 at 9:38 am

Thank you for putting the word out that organ and tissue donation is important.  I am a donor Mom and a volunteer with LifePoint.  Thanks to all you do.

Beau langer | October 21, 2010 at 11:14 am

Wonderful interview that touched many people. Thank you so much. Alive, well, and enjoying my new life after my kidney transplant. Thank you Alex Burdette, my donor and hero. As of this posting 108,725 desperate people are on the wait list. Many will not make it and I think about them every day.

Good job everyone involved. You’re the BEST!

Beth Watkins | October 27, 2010 at 2:26 pm

My son, James, received a heart/double lung transplant on January 2, 1992.  He is doing great, but as many recipients have learned (or will learn), the rejection medicines have ruined his kidneys.  He is currently getting everything so he can be placed on the waiting list for a kidney.  I am so glad to hear that organ/tissue donation has once again been splotlighted.  I intend on going to “Donors on the Diamond” and encourage everyone else to come as well.  There are so many waiting for their Gift of Life and we owe it to them to spread the word!  God Bless you all who are currently on the waiting list and Praise God for all of you who have received their wonderful gift.

Easter Dickerson | February 03, 2011 at 4:27 pm

Thank you tremendously for your awesome support of organ and tissue donation.  The media is the perfect vehicle to disseminate important awareness information to the public.
Also, thanks for touching so many people through such a heartfelt interview. It was truly touching!  May God bless you continously!  I am a 2004 kidney transplant recipient and I am very blessed.

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