April 11 this week was Living Donor Day to raise awareness for living organ donor transplants.
Kidneys are one of the most common living organ donations. Believe it or not, the first successful kidney transplant performed on humans was done in 1954. (Animal donations go back as far as 1902!) In the US, annual kidney donations top 25,000 per year, but this is far below the number actually needed.
Other tissue and organ donations that can be made by living donors include lungs, part of the liver, bone marrow, skin, bone, and blood components.
WAYS TO SUPPORT NATIONAL LIVING DONOR DAY
- Visit with your physician to begin the steps to becoming a living donor.
- Support organizations that help find matches for those on the national donor list.
- Help out a family who is recovering from a donor surgery.
- Hold a fundraiser to alleviate costs for a living donor or recipient of a donor surgery.
- Learn about the different types of organs and tissue a living donor can give.
- Honor and support the transplant medical professionals and health systems that make living organ donation possible.
- Share your story about becoming a living donor or receiving an organ donation on social media using #NationalLivingDonorDay.
NATIONAL LIVING DONOR DAY | April 11 – National Day Calendar
In honor of Living Donor Day, I am putting Unlawful Harvest on sale for one day only at $2.99 at Google Play and my estore. Grab it today, because tomorrow it will be back to full price!
Unlawful Harvest is the first book in the A Kenzie Kirsch Medical Thriller series. I have just release book #5 in the series, Rushin’ Death, and book #6 and 7 are available for preorder. If you enjoy medical mysteries, Robin Cook, or Bones or CSI, you will enjoy this series! Kenzie Kirsch started out as a secondary character in the Zachary Goldman Mysteries series, and Unlawful Harvest is her origin story.
Unlawful Harvest
Unlawful Harvest is a Kenzie Kirsch Medical Thriller. If you have been reading the Zachary Goldman Mysteries, then you have met Kenzie Kirsch, who works in the medical examiner’s office.
This story will take you back to before Kenzie started medical school, to the case that first attracted her to medical investigation.
When an Urban Legend becomes reality
Kenzie Kirsch had led a sheltered life; daughter of a wealthy lobbyist, her way had been paved for her, and she wasn’t really required to do much in life. There were events to make an appearance at, boards to sit on, fundraisers to support, but she could pick and choose what she wanted to do and how busy she wanted to be.
When she set out to find out why her sister Amanda was so ill, she had no idea where her amateur investigation would take her. Amanda’s illness had never been discussed. Amanda deserved her privacy.
As Kenzie’s questions take her deeper and deeper into the murky world of transplant tourism, Kenzie starts to wonder just what her parents have been covering up, and who else’s life might hang in the balance.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I enjoyed the fast pace of the story which kept me flipping pages late into the night. It is one of those books you just don’t want to put down until you have read the very last word. If you enjoy suspense, intrigue, family drama, spell-binding imagery and great character development, you will absolutely enjoy reading this book.
If you are a reader of the Zachary Goldman Mysteries series, you have already met Kenzie Kirsch. This series is a spinoff from Zachary Goldman Mysteries, giving Kenzie a front-and-center position in solving medical mysteries.
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