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I'm Tim Sweeney, fitness and nutrition coach with a unique perspective on health, wellness, and overcoming obstacles. I've dedicated my life to helping others realize their own health goals. Visit often to live, learn, and be inspired to maximize your own health.
Tim

Imagine if Tim’s donor family had not decided to make the ultimate gift of life, the lungs that carried Tim across the finish line at the New York Marathon, might have been buried forever with his organ donor. Now imagine Tim’s miraculous story, multiplied around the world, saving lives of many in need through the loving and humanitarian gift of organ donation!

Right now, anywhere from 20 – 30% of patients around the world, die waiting for lung transplants. There are just not enough organ donations to meet the need of patients who require a lung transplant. Many families who have suffered the loss of a loved one who became an organ donor, say that knowing their loved one helped save a life, is a great source of comfort and helps them cope with their loss. Get the facts on organ donation, and make an informed decision based on truth rather than myth. Organ donation is the ultimate humanitarian act of charity and generosity, and is supported by most major religions. Organ donation, as in the case of Tim Sweeney, may be the one chance an individual will have in this world, to save the life of another.

--Joshua R Sonett, MD, is particularly recognized for successfully treating former American President Bill Clinton in 2005 for a complication that developed in his lungs after a bypass surgery that was performed on him in 2004.

• 113,795 people are waiting for an organ
• 18 people will die each day waiting for an organ
• 1 organ donor can save up to 8 lives
• As of May 4, 2009, the percentage of recipients who were still living 5-years after their transplant
  • Kidney: 69.3%
  • Heart: 74.9%
  • Liver: 73.8%
  • Lung: 54.4%
• In 2010, 62% of living donors were women. The statistic is reversed for deceased donation.
• In 2010, 67% of all deceased donors were White, 16% were Black, 13% Hispanic and 2.3% Asian.
• As of December 2011, the national waiting list was made up of 45% White, 29% Black, 18% Hispanic, and 7% Asian.
• In 2007, (the most recent data) there were almost 2.5 million deaths in the U.S. Imagine if every one of those persons had donated.
• Currently, more than 100 million people in the U.S. are signed up to be a donor—sign up and join them.

For more information and to become someone’s hero, please visit:
                  www.organdonor.gov

Cystic Fibrosis

• an inherited chronic disease affecting 30,000 children and adults in the United States (70,000 worldwide).
• chronic life-threatening lung infections obstruction of the pancreas preventing natural enzymes from helping the body break down and absorb food.
• median age of survival is 38 years old.
• about 1,000 new cases of cystic fibrosis are diagnosed each year.