ORGAN DONATION

Please watch! It isn’t ALL good, but that is John’s job & I respect him and find him funny.

For the first time I’ve seen him in a slightly different light. I admire first his courage to go against the system including his own network to do DEEP DIVES into Real issues in our country to hold those accountable who are not being held accountable ALL WHILE making it hilariously entertaining.

He does use one offs out of thousands at times for humor like this piece and isn’t really fair, but he & his team can’t possible handle all the issues like the answer the to the “Steve Job’s” issue (see below at 9:15). First, I’ll say, that I’m as close to an expert about this category without being a trained medical professional. It became so by serving thousands or hours on over 5 organ donation related boards the biggest of which is the Houston & Greater Surrounding Area OPO for 7 years, Life Gift which is over a $50M non profit operation facilitating upward of 1,500 life saving transplants per year.

A LOT of this piece is about WHOLE BODY DONATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH WHICH I CAN NOT SPEAK TO.

SOME NOTES FROM A BOARD MEMBER OF 7 YEARS (ME) OF HOUSTON’S Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) LIFE GIFT:

During the segment:

2:15 — “90%+ of US Citizens Poled Support Organ Donation while Only 50% have”. ASH YOURSELF WHY THERE IS A GAP BETWEEN 50% registered & 90%+ who support! Answer is supporting believers with ACTION which only takes 60 seconds at TKFoudation.org or DonateLifeAmerica.com. 42K Organ Transplants Per Year in US Estimated 5.6K more could be saved if systems were perfect & in harmony State to State & OPO to OPO which UNOS regulates, but like ALL things is not perfect, but is ONLY improving (I’ve been there myself to audit). 17 People Die Everyday Due To Not Having Enough Organs Available

-3:50 — Please remember the different between living donation for Kidneys & lately Livers with Organ Donation after Dead Body which is all the other organs needed to save lives. BTW, this happen all over the country including Houston for people who can afford to plead to the masses for a live voluntary kidney donation (you have two and can live with one).

-6:00 — The Federal Government just got involved in this category in 1984 & has gotten better as this CONTINUALLY EVOLVING medical science develops.

-6:45 — what they missing about “the list” is that the over all health of patients needing transplants is their over all health so that they are not transplanting organs like a lung into someone who is going to die of a heart attack in several months when their is a patients at that moment in time is healthy except for the needed organ.

-9:15 — There are plenty of places around the country that house patients awaiting transplantation for free near hospitals that do transplantation for FREE. Here in Houston, that place is Nora’s Home which I & my family proudly helped open with money, time, making dinner for residences on Sunday Nights & me hosting their Gala 3 consecutive years raising $700K on average each year.

-11:45 — Please remember only less than 2% of US Deaths result in a qualifying donors

-12:10 — This is why it is SO IMPORTANT for individuals to make this decision for themselves and not leave it to their suddenly bereaved loved ones. Houston’s Life Gift (OPO) is one of the top rated on all counts in the county & has full time employees in hospitals to have those conversations so that hospital staff don’t have to. Roughly 2 out of 3 times they are miraculous successful!

-15:05 — Sounds like she was complicit & has a guilty conscience or is full of it. Not sure, I don’t know her personally, but that smacks of fired employee looking to grind an axe. If you ran it, why didn’t you change it as an executive?

-17:10 — While I can’t speak on this specific situation or personal correspondence, I can tell you it is a FACT that in the Houston Community, Hispanics receive the most % of transplants while having the lowest % of being registered organ donors. No statement here. Just the facts.

-25:50 — IT IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT! Human’s are imperfect. Human systems are imperfect. However the GIFT OF LIFE is PERFECT!

29:35 — Oliver’s Personal Believes About Being An Devoted Organ Donor Himself

Exchange Club of Pearland on October 4, 2023

Full Mini-Mentary About the “Clutch” Run for Organ Donation

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TO BE AN OFFICIAL ORGAN DONOR IN AMERICA>>

ATTENTION HOUSTON AREA HIGH SCHOOLS:

CALL 832-541-3865 or EMAIL Robert@RobertBoudwin.com to schedule a FREE School Presentation courtesy of the Todd Krampitz Foundation for the fall of 2019 TODAY (first come first serve for 20 presentations/shows) covering the power & value of a solid education, behind the scenes look at Robert’s Inspirational 21 year career journey from $20K to $300K as Houston Rockets Mascot CLUTCH the Bear via education & work ethic, his career as an administrator now at the University of Houston and his personal family’s story of THE GIFT OF LIFE through organ donation and transplantation and how giving back and helping others is what life is all about! Robert has spoken to thousands of elementary schools, and hundreds of high schools, companies, non-profits, organizations, conferences, and other special events. Have him motivate and inspire you students this fall FOR FREE all compliments of the Todd Krampitz Foundation. ONLY 20 spots are available (BOOK ASAP).

THE FACTS

-OVER 107,000 people are on the transplant waiting list in America

-17 people die every day who otherwise would have been saved with ample available organs

-It takes only 60 seconds to register to be an official organ donor

-Anyone with a valid Driver’s License or ID Card can register to be an organ donor

-All major world religions support and endorse organ donation

-There are 1,400+ life saving transplants every year in the Houston area alone

-Everyone can register to be an organ donor & everyone might benefit from it one day

-There are 32 Million Texans & As Of 2023 & 57% are registered donors

-Registering to be an organ donor legally ensures that your wishes are respected should the unthinkable & untimely happen to you taking that burden off your grieving family

Ian’s father Rob & mother Janis listening to their son Ian’s lungs inhaling & exhaling in my father Paul’s chest

THE BEGINNING OF THE HEINEMANN’S & BOUDWIN’S EXTENDED FAMILY RELATIONSHIP WHICH HAS BEEN ON GOING NOW SINCE MEETING IN 2013

There are 4 of these billboards that are up around Houston 11/2016-11/2017, one of which is in Spanish. They will be rotating to different locations every 4 weeks. This $105k advertising campaign is a joint venture between The Todd Krampitz Foundation and Life Gift, both of which I sit on the board. Over the past 4 years, along with my wife Amy and many of you, we personally raised half of those funds ourselves. I thank you all for contributing! Our efforts have been rewarded. Since getting involved with advocating and speaking for the cause, I have seen the donor registry grow from less than 3 million to 8.5 million. We still have a lot of work to do! If you haven’t already, please register at donatelifetexas.org. Get your T-Shirt pictured below on this site under merchandise for organ donation awareness with all proceeds going to charity for the cause!