Past GoodHearts Events

Please enjoy photos and descriptions from some our past GoodHearts Events.

View photos of a recent Activity Group get together - Goodhearts Bowling

 

 

Living Well With Transplants: Patient Education Day 2008

Date: Friday, June 20, 2008

2008 Presenters & Topics

- Benefits of Exercise Training Post Transplant - Dr. Mark Haykowsky
- Gratitude: A New Perspective for a New Life - Dr. Philip Watkins
- Expanding Your Sodium Savvy - Grace Hubert, RD, CDE
- Medication Use – Truth, Lies and Common Sense - Dr. Glen Pearson
- Mentoring – Enhancing Lives With Another Perfect Match - Eli Compton & Dr. Patricia Scott

Downloads:

• the Living Well Poster (Adobe pdf)
• a summary of the day (Adobe pdf)
• Readings & References for Dr. Watkins talk "Livng Well with Graditude" (Adobe pdf)
• Dr. Watkins talk “Living Well with Gratitude” as Adobe pdf or Powerpoint presentation

 

 

Candlelight Service 2008

View the Candlelight Service 2008 Web Album

Sunday, April 20, 2008
Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre

To Honour Donors, Donor Families and Living Donors
And Remember Recipients Who Light the Way
By Being Compliant Only in the Taking of their Medications

 

 

2008 National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week in Alberta

'We have some organs for you'
Ron Kube, Special to The Journal
Published: Sunday, April 20

Today marks the start of National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week in Canada. In this first-person account, U of A professor Ron Kube describes how his life was saved by a transplant operation. Read more … (Online Article)

Recipient puts heart to ultimate test
Nick Lees, The Edmonton Journal
Published: Friday, April 13, 2008

Twenty-two years ago, doctors gave Dwight Kroening two months to live and said a heart transplant was the only way to save his life. Read more … (Online Article)

Canada's organ-donation rate among world's worst
Chris Zdeb, The Edmonton Journal
Published: Monday, April 07

How many people can benefit from one organ and tissue donor? One? Five? As many as 80. Read more... (Online Article)

Adam's gift
Chris Zdeb, The Edmonton Journal
Published: Monday, April 07

On what would have been his 30th birthday, an Edmonton man whose heart saved the life of a young mother is recalled with gratitude. Read more... (Online Article)

 

 

Candlelight Service 2007

View the Candlelight Service 2007 Web Album
Photos by Greg Southam

Sunday, April 22, 2007
Tucker Amphitheatre, Citadel Theatre

To Honour Donors, Donor Families and Living Donors
And Remember Recipients Who Light the Way
By Being Compliant Only in the Taking of their Medications

We wish to thank the following:

H.O.P.E. Program, University of Alberta Hospital
ComprehensiveTissue Centre, U of A Hospital
Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation
Canadian Transplant Association
Liver Foundation Albert Branch
Kidney Foundation of Canada
Northern Alberta & Territories Branch
International Transplant Nurses Society Alberta Branch
Rev, Donald Kroening
Dr. Mark Haykowsky

Poem read by donor mom Gwen Angulalik in memory of her son Alexander Stephen Angulalik

Miss Me – But Let Me Go

When I come to the end of the road
And the sun has set for me,
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room!
Why cry for a soul set free!
Miss me a little – but not too long
And not with your head bowed low,
Remember the love that once we shared
Miss me, but let me go.
For this is a journey we all must take
And each must go alone;
It's all part of the Master's Plan
A step on the road to home.
When you are lonely and sick of the heart
Go to the friends we know
And bury your sorrows in going good deeds.
Miss me, but let me go.

- Author Unknown

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