{"id":1515,"date":"2024-12-26T19:07:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T19:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:59:59","slug":"2nd-day-of-christmas-some-company-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/26\/2nd-day-of-christmas-some-company-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd day of Christmas: some company along the way&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 of the Christmas blogs, and the first\u00a0contribution from our guests is from Faye, a nurse and former transplant\u00a0coordinator.\u00a0 These are the incredible people who\u00a0join lots of dots, making it possible for organ donation to happen and be the miracle that it can be.\u00a0 They communicate with transplant centres and medical teams, coordinating the opportunities for organ donations throughout the UK,\u00a0making sure\u00a0organs get to the right place quickly and in optimum condition.\u00a0 They talk with patients and their families. They are the ones who keep in touch with families during the transplant operations, bringing news and updates from the operating theatre.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1552 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Faye-Baxter-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Faye Baxter\" width=\"176\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Faye-Baxter-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Faye-Baxter-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Faye-Baxter.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When thinking about patient journeys, wherever the end destination may be, this beautiful version of <strong>You&#8217;ll never walk alone, by Nina Simone<\/strong>, comes to mind.\u00a0 As a nurse caring for patients on a transplant journey I certainly wouldn&#8217;t have wanted any patient or their family to walk alone; I would want them to know we are always there for support.\u00a0 I think this song also recognises that sometimes that transplant journey can be a very challenging one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a beautiful instrumental version of the song.\u00a0 Perhaps not surprisingly, this song was suggested by a few people, so more of it to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 of the Christmas blogs, and the first\u00a0contribution from our guests is from Faye, a nurse and former transplant\u00a0coordinator.\u00a0 These are the incredible people who\u00a0join lots of dots, making it possible for organ donation to happen and be the miracle that it can be.\u00a0 They communicate with transplant centres and medical teams, coordinating the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news-and-events","category-personal-story","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phtpid-or","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}