TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
"Your voice of the transplant community"

Pgm #98: Writing to Your Donor Family

November 02, 2018
Lara Moretti & panel
LSW, CT breavement counselor, Gift of Life Donor Progarm

Lara S. Moretti will address recipient concerns about the donor and his family and how the correspondence process works. She will discuss why some recipients and donor families write and others do not as well as why some correspond multiple times. She will also discuss the experiences of recipients who have met their donor families. Join us to learn about the correspondence process and the answers to these questions.

A patient panel discussion will follow. To download the article mentioned in the opening of this talk, go to https://www.trioweb.org/images/files/resources/downloads/Why_Didnt_They_Write_by_JMG.pdf

and to download a full book chapter of patient stories about this important topic, go to: http://www.rjwitte.com/changeofheart/GiftFromTheHeart/Section2/CHP-31-DONOR-COMMUNICATIONS.pdf