Organ Donation : A gift of life

December oh December, it's like the last few days of December already and I've been having fun since the first week.So many parties, so many events, and there's more coming.This means there's alot of things to blog for December :/I think I can blog about it until March.lollll 
真不敢相信还有不到10天，2012就要过了！从12月就一直忙个不停，感觉时间真的过得超级快，也表示着这12月有好多东西要写啊，我觉得我真的可以从12月一直写到3月。

Howdyyyyy!!!How's ya Christmas? I’m finally officially an organ donor  here in Malaysia on Christmas.
大家的圣诞节都过得怎么样啊？这个圣诞节，我正式成为了器官捐赠者哦 。

I was a registered organ donor on my 21th Birthday and I only get my donor card on Christmas, I wish the procedure is as simple over here but they are improving.
I urge you to be an organ donor as well, all you have to do is head to the National Transplant Resource Center or  register online. It takes only a few minutes, and could help change someone’s life forever. www.agiftoflife.gov.my

我在今年21岁生日当天申请成为器官捐赠者，到了12月才正式成为器官捐赠的其中一员，真心希望他们的程序可以再快一点。

在这里鼓励大家也加入并且成为器官捐赠的一员，所要做的只是花几分钟到 National Transplant Resource Center或者是透过网上申请，而我们这几分钟的简单步骤 ，就可以在我们真的不幸去世的时候，救人一命。

Now let me elaborate a little bit more on organ donation and its importance to the over 15,000 people in this country.
现在让我在这里简介地介绍一下，这对15,000以上的马来西亚人民来说，是一项很重要的讯息。

You’ll get an official donor’s card via mail, and keeping this card in your wallet all the time ensures that time-critical organs can be harvested without delay should anything happen the donor.

网络申请后，我们会通过信件收到我们的器官捐赠卡，拿到后记得要放在钱包里，并且时时刻刻带着以确保我们发生不幸的时候，医务人员可以在第一时间内获得我们的器官并且去帮助其他等待器官的人。

I’m told that donor’s bodies will be treated with utmost respect, and that a separate panel will have to ensure that nothing further can be done to help the person before the status is changed to an organ donor. The fear of “they’ll give up and use my body as spare parts instead” is pretty much unfounded.
我知道很多马来西亚人民都有一个 stereotype,觉得我们死后的身体会不被尊重，或者是担心我们还没完全死亡的时候，就被心急的医务人员拿走器官，导致我们失去继续活下来的机会。其实大家不用担心，这些都老一派的谣言。在这个科技与文明兼备的社会里，这些是不存在的，请大家真的不需要去担心。

What is Organ Transplant?
Organ transplant is the best treatment option to save lives of patients with terminal stage of organ failure. The damaged organ is replaced with healthy organ from either deceased (cadaveric) donor with permission, or donor who are still living (such is the case of kidney or liver, and only from family members)
老实说，更换器官是救人的最好办法！如果你们曾经亲眼看到过那些器官已经坏死，躺在病床上奄奄一息地等待器官捐赠的病人，你们一定会感觉到深深地心痛。他们就是在等待我们这些已经正式申请成为器官捐赠者的健康器官。

For patients with terminal stages of heart, liver, and lung organ failure, organ transplant is often the only hope to continue living. For patients with kidney failure, continual dialysis is an alternative treatment, but one that costs RM 120-150 per session, which translate to RM 1500+ to RM 3000+ per month.
有些心脏，肝脏或者是肺部坏死的病人，只是在自己的期待中等待奇迹，靠着这份希望活下去。而那些肾脏已经不能操作的病人，必须要一直做治疗，一项治疗就要花上RM120~150,一个月就要花 大概RM1，500~RM3,000，这是多么庞大的金额啊！

Organ and Tissue Donation After Death
In Malaysia, both organs and tissues can be donated for donors who experienced brain death, but only tissues can be harvested for donors who experienced cardiac death. Less than 2% of death in hospitals are of the brain death category.
在马来西亚，脑死的病人可以将所有还能正常操作的器官捐出去.但是在医院内的大多数病人都是心脏猝死的，脑死只占了2%

Two separate doctors with no connection to organ donation will run tests and certify if the person to be officially brain dead (and not under coma) before the artificial heart-lung machine can be switched off.
医生会给死后的身体做一系列的快速测试以及检查，确定我们不是纯粹昏迷而是正式死亡后，然后一再确定我们是否器官捐赠者，才开始取下那些健康的器官。

This is important and ensures there will be no conflict on interests, the fear of “what if they take my organs instead of trying to save me” is completely unfounded.
再一次强调，没有所谓的：“ 他们宁愿直接拿走我们的器官都不要浪费时间救我们的事情。“

Organs that can be donated in Malaysia（可以捐赠的器官）
Heart, lung, kidney, and liver （心脏，肺部，肾脏以及肝脏） 

Tissues that can be donated in Malaysia（可以捐赠的组织） 
Skin, heart valves, cornea, bones（皮肤，心脏瓣膜，眼角膜，骨骼） 

Why is cadaveric organ donor important in Malaysia?（为什么心脏捐赠那么重要） 
Every cadaveric organ donor can potentially  save up to 6 lives and gives sight to 2 other person!
每一个尸体器官捐赠者平均可以救活6个人并帮助2个人“重见光明”

If you’ve been following the news lately, you would have come across the news of Hui Yee, the heart transplant girl.
如果你们有留意新闻的话，肯定都知道在2007年的时候，36小时内经历移植心脏2次的女孩——慧仪

Hui Yee underwent double heart transplant on Oct 4 and Oct 5, 2007 from two different donors. The first from a Malay man in Sitiawan but was rejected by her body, and second from a Chinese man from Kangkar Pulai which was successful.她经历了2次的心脏移植手术，第一次却产生了排斥反应，而第二次的移植手术却非常成功。2天内可以获得2个心脏捐赠已经是一个天大的奇迹了！

With the donor heart she was able to return to school and went on to live well until she passed away after complaining of chest pain this september.
有了他人捐赠的心脏，在2007年的她终于可以重返校园并且健康地活下去直到她最近在9月吃了火锅后一直呕吐不止，甚至不断申诉背部至肩膀部位疼痛难当后逝世。

Without organ donors, Hui Yee’s story would have been very different.
如果没有心脏捐赠者的帮助，慧仪的故事会与现在大不相同。

Some Statistics (As of August 31, 2012)

• 203,497 people have pledge to be organ donors
• 145,804 people have registered as organ donors for all organs and tissues
• in 2011 alone, 30,469 people have registered

Over 15,552 patients are waiting for organ transplant

• kidney – over 15,000
• liver – 6 adults, 11 children
• heart – 8
• lung – 3
• heart and lung – 3

Organ donation and religion
Organ donation is not prohibited in Islam, Christianity, Buddism, Hinduism, or in the Sikh religion.So what can you do? Isn’t it time to register yourself as an organ donor? For more information via many different channels:
器官捐赠不分种族和宗教，所以我们还等什么呢？赶快去申请成为器官捐赠者吧！

Become donor via Online Register:http://www.agiftoflife.gov.my/register.php
网络申请成为器官捐赠者:http://www.agiftoflife.gov.my/register.php

So, do the right thing and be an organ donor today!