TRIO- Long Island
Chapter PO Box 81 Garden City, NY 11530 www.litrio.org 516-942-4940
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Long
Island TRIO will present the 2010 Organ Donation Awareness
Night at Citi Field as the Mets welcome the Phillies
on August 15, 2010- 8 PM. To exchange tickets, please
call Ruth Pohl at 631.884.0482.
You
can purchase your tickets here
LI
TRIO's Re-dedication ceremony for the Organ Donor Rose
Garden, planted and maintained by volunteers at the
Long Island chapter of Transplant Recipients International
Organization (TRIO).
Our annual ceremony honors those who have given others
new life.
LI
TRIO's 2010 Re-dedication ceremony for the
Organ Donor Rose Garden will be held on Saturday,September
25, 2010 at 12 noon.
Transplant
Recipients and Food Safety- at LITRIO.org
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Please
remember that our meetings begin at 7:30 PM and are
held at
145 Community Dr., Manhasset, NY.
Would
you like to read about our newest LI TRIO member?
Michael
is a Nassau County Police Officer. His wife Jen is a
teacher and her former student donated one of his kidneys
to Michael. Here is the story is Michael's words.
I
am writing to you to share my story of “life”.
My name is Michael Palazzo; I am 37 years old and a
Nassau County Police Officer
Upcoming
Events
Long
Island TRIO- Organ Donation Awareness Month Legislative
Initiatives and Events
TRIO is represented by the Tree
of Life. With its intertwining branches, the Tree of
Life symbolizes the intertwining of the lives of two
human beings, the donor and the recipient,through the
Gift of Life. It depicts growth and new life and reinforces
the new beginning transplantation gives to the recipient.
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Our
friend and Long Island TRIO member Mack Steinbock has
received the Gift Of Life March
2010: Snowstorm liver transplant is a miracle for Long
Island woman
Mack
threw out the first pitch at a 2010 Mets game at Citifield.
Article
about Transplantation-Samantha Shepard-Morning News
Member
Profiles
Total
Care RX
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Visit the Stephanie Joyce Kahn Foundation
David
S. Ware, who learned his craft at the knee of Sonny
Rollins performed live after receiving The Gift Of Life
from a friend!
First
living donor liver recipient at conference
Twenty years ago University of Chicago doctors performed
the world's first successful living-donor liver transplant
I
was able to obtain $100.00 vouchers/cards for the credit
of $100.00 ($100 per month for 12 months) toward the
co-pay of cellcept medication. Certain restrictions
apply of course (Government plans et. al.) and Tom has
volunteered to help distribute these cards at our meetings
and via USPS. -Michael Sosna
Long
Island TRIO honored Donors and Donor Families at our
LI TRIO Donor Rose Garden in our deeded area of Eisenhower
Park on Long Island in New York.
LI TRIO also honored one donor in particular who donated
one of her kidneys to her student, who is a member of
Long Island TRIO.
At the ceremony, Long island TRIO arranged for Sentator
Kemp Hannon to present one of New York State's highest
awards, "The Liberty Award" to Jennifer Jennifer
Mazzotta-Perretti, a teacher, who is also the special
education director at the Hebrew Academy of the Five
Towns & Rockaway.
"She received her award during a rededication of
a donor rose garden planted and maintained by the Long
Island chapter of Transplant Recipients International
Organization, an organ donation advocacy group."
Long
Island TRIO Annual Donor Rose Garden Re-dedication Ceremony For Immediate Release From Mike Sosna, Long Island TRIO
Transplant
Recipients International Organization
Long Island Chapter
Long
Island TRIO Member Receives Kidney From His Teacher
Story
featured in Newsday September 17, 2009
A
Lesson For Life
Jennifer
Mazzotta-Perretti never expected that, after giving
students an assignment to write about their experiences
doing good deeds, she would have the opportunity
to do one herself.
One student in her summer creative writing class
at Nassau BOCES in Wantagh posed the question:
Would you give life to someone else if you didn't
have to give up your own? She said yes, she would.
Then he asked if she would donate one of her kidneys
- to him. Again, she said yes.
At the time the student, Kevin O'Brien, didn't
need a transplant. Later, when he did, he remembered
her answer and asked her again.
She pledged that she would, not expecting it to
work out because the odds were against two unrelated
people being a match.
But after a blood donor card arrived in the mail
stating that her blood type was O positive - the
same as his - she felt compelled to undergo more
testing and learned that their match went beyond
blood.
That's when the single mother of one from Levittown
prayed - and decided to go through with the donation.
Long
Island TRIO will present the 2010 Organ Donation
Awareness Night at Citi Field as the Mets welcome
the Phillies on August 15, 2010.
Here
is a photo of our chapter's 2009 Organ Donation
Awareness Night at CitiField-August 19, 2009
New
York Mets Award Ceremony on the field at Citifield
as Long Island TRIO helps publicize the importance
of saving lives with organ donation.
Wearable
Kidney May Replace Dialysis Machine
New
Law Seeks to Increase Organ Donation
Machine
Saves Patients Awaiting Liver Transplant
Yankee
homered on same night she received a heart transplant!
After
following the above link, you will be able to
enter your Zip code in order to contact your Representative.
Remember
and Rejoice
My
father and I were invited to speak at and participate
in this wonderful event honoring Donors and Donor
Families.
Our
friends at our sister chapter- TRIO Manhattan
held the wonderful "Remember and Rejoice"
event at St. Patrick's Cathedral on April 4th.
We hope you will join us next year at this very
special annual Ecumenical Service honoring and
remembering donors and their families.-Mike
Sosna
ARTIFICIAL
LIVER EXTENDS LIVES
Protocol
Improves ABO-Incompatible Transplants
Comparing
Medicare Prescription Drug Plans: The Medicare
Prescription Drug Plan Finder
The
Stephanie Tubbs-Jones Congressional Gift of Life
Medal Act (HR 7198).
Directions
to our monthly meetings:
Recognizing
The Brave And
Selfless Act of Organ Donation
Update:Stephanie
Tubbs-Jones Congressional Gift of Life Medal Act
(HR 7198).
We're pleased to report that the House
of Representatives and the Senate has passed the
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Gift of Life
Congressional Medal Act. These bills direct
the Treasury department to design
and produce a commemorative
medal that the Department of Health
and Human Services will award to
organ donors or to a surviving family
member. Enactment of this legislation
would have no cost to the Federal
Government. The medals will be
funded by charitable donations and
organizations including TRIO and its
membership.
A
Letter from Senator Hillary Clinton to LI
TRIO
How
the Spanish donor system works
Long
Island TRIO In The News: This
article appeared in Suffolk Life on April
16, 2008
TRIO is represented
by the Tree of Life. With its intertwining
branches, the Tree of Life symbolizes
the intertwining of the lives of two
human beings, the donor and the recipient,through
the Gift of Life. It depicts growth
and new life and reinforces the new
beginning transplantation gives to
the recipient.