Organ Donation Week 2020 starts today, Monday 7th September. As an introduction to it all, and what to expect from Live Loudly Donate Proudly this week, we can’t do better than Lucia’s own words from a few years ago. Here goes again..
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World Organ Donation Day (plus one)
This year’s UK Transplant Games should have been held in Coventry but, like so much else, they became “Virtual” instead. That was two weeks ago. If all things had been different, even Lucia would have slept it off by now.
Today the NHS celebrates its 72nd birthday
Today the NHS celebrates its 72nd birthday.
On your birthday, NHS, we would like to be able to give you the full resources you need, human and material, to do the jobs you chose to do to the fullest. We would like to give your public service a guarantee of protection you can trust. We would like to provide accessible opportunities for training for those who wish to dedicate their lives to the care of others and welcome and security for the diversity of those who come to care for us from other countries.
On your birthday, and every day, we would like to give you confidence and time to reflect on the work you do, to learn from genuine mistakes rather than hide them for fear of punishment and to learn even more from the good, the better and the excellence that is easily shrugged off as “just doing your job”. The chance to be proud of what you do and the opportunities to make it even better when you can see a way.
You, NHS, and the gracious and brave donor families, gave Lucia, the founder of Live Loudly Donate Proudly, 12 more birthdays than would have been possible without her liver transplants. We know what beautiful and fruitful years they have been and how much life has been celebrated.
With deep gratitude we wish you a happy birthday and give you our promise that if we can’t give you all of the gifts we would like to today, we will stand with others who want to do the same until we can.
Service in Honour Of Lucia
The service for Lucia Quinney Mee, held on Wednesday 3rd June 2020, 4:00pm, in Honor Oak Crematorium, Camberwell, London, is now available to view, until 30th June 2020, on the following link:
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Password: 102516
We are grateful to all who played a part in the service and to those able to honour Lucia with their presence in person or online in many other locations, within and beyond these shores.
We are also moved by and grateful for the many cards and messages that reflect Lucia’s joyful and encouraging impact on so many people of all ages.
Knowing Lucia as we do, we will travel on from here in friendship and solidarity with one another, expecting to see her light and inspiration ahead of us, awake to the love that holds us together.
Live Loudly, Donate Proudly.
Swimming to the surface
Lucia has managed Live Loudly Donate Proudly with energy, grace and wisdom since starting the campaign in September 2015.
Her last blog was from the Liver Intensive Therapy Unit of King’s College Hospital, London, two and a half months after her fourth liver transplant. Lucia, with everyone, was working towards her recovery.
What follows is a message that we, Lucia’s sister Alice and her parents Rachel and David, shared on Sunday 24 May 2020.
Four is the magic number?
Well, here we are again. In another ICU, recovering from another liver transplant – my fourth. Seeing it in black and white is still quite surreal.
Getting a tiny bit political…just for a minute
Team…GB? NI? GB&NI? Ireland? UK? All of them? Why so complicated?!
A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words…
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A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words…
A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words…
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