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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.

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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.

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Please remember that our meetings begin at 7:30 PM and are held at
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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.

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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. E-Mail Tree litrio@gmail.com LI TRIO Webmaster: Mike Sosna email address mike@sosproductions.com Copyright © 1995-2010 TRIO Long Island Chapter LITRIO.org All rights reserved