03/27/2024
📢🛑✋🛑✋🛑🥰❤️ Please Read & Share: Phase 1 Completed!!! Phase 2 Starts Now: The Waiting & Processing 📢🛑✋🛑✋🛑🥰❤️
Hello everyone. I can’t believe what I’m about to write. It seems as though Phase 1 is completed. We have heard through the grapevine, that there are enough for the first round of applicants for selection team to find a viable candidate. Now, we have to be careful not to slow the process down by having more people apply. This is the most precarious time and need to be respectful of the process, albeit poised in case we need to repeat Phase 1 (which is why I will include al the donor application information in the latter half of this message), and begin the search again. Please remember, 70 to 80% of all applicants are rejected.
What now? Now, I would ask you to look at the following steps and carry with you a pride in knowing that what we have completed in our first week of campaign is very, very rare. We are so blessed that so many people from across Canada and internationally have come to our support. Our family can hardly believe it. So a heartfelt thanks to all of you.
1. Share this post!!! We are at a delicate balance right now between having enough donor applicants and congesting the system, which can slow things down for Caius.
2. Copy and paste it into a document and save for later. This is the end of Phase 1 of this campaign and the beginning of Phase 2: the waiting. We hope we do not need to repeat p phase 1, but if we do, we need to be ready.
3. Rest. It is Easter time and we hope you and your families will come together with a bit of extra love in your hearts for the good you have created in the world by your sharing and support of our search.
4. If you have applied and wondering about your application, please contact UHN at livingdonorliver@uhn.ca and/or (416) 340-5400. We are given no updates on processing.
5. Subscribe to our page for updates and receive notifications of we need to repeat Phase 1.
6. Keep us in your hearts but look for others who need support in our communities. For those in particular with sick children, family, suffer, and silence, not because they want to, but because of the demand of places on them. it’s the sense of isolation and illness. That is sometimes the most challenging. By you reaching out and acknowledging and strengthening their path you can help a great deal. In particular, here is a family that could use your attention right now: https://www.facebook.com/febcentralchurchplanting/posts/pfbid0fbbG3Phjh7vUCQJrnEJzbuc48Bdt7hvw1zjYpZd8QFX8t7mk4Qu2cgzuanCQEKYTl
In the meantime, our own family is also going to take a bit of a rest. Those involved in this campaign have been working around the clock since we began a week last Sunday everyone needs to take a short break as we wait. Caius continues to be monitored by Sick Kids ‘ (He had a check up and bloodwork done yesterday). Now is a chance to remember why we are doing all of this and take the opportunity to spend more time with him and as a family.
I will make updates to our website, www.kissesforcaius.com adding more to our Resources Page and our Newsletter.
Donate here: http://www.uhn.ca/.../Centre_for_Living_Organ_Donation
Anyone with blood type O+ or O– between the ages of 16 and 55 years and in good health (no diabetes, cancer, kidney or heart disease) can apply to be a living donor for Caius.
The donor does not need to be a relative or of the same ethnicity (that matters for stem cells, not organs). The criteria for living organ donors are different than for blood donors. If you are not eligible to donate blood, you may still be able to be a living organ donor.


To learn more about living donation and to apply to become his living liver donor, please visit:
http://www.uhn.ca/.../Livin.../Pages/living_liver_donor.aspx
There is a 13-page health history. Completing and submitting this health history is your application. The application form asks for Caius’ full name (Caius David) and his date of birth (15 October 2012).


Candidates go through a comprehensive assessment to ensure they are healthy enough to donate.
For expenses like travel, food, accommodation and income replacement, there is a reimbursement program for the donor through Trillium Gift of Life. They will reimburse expenses even if you get part-way through the screening process and change your mind or aren’t accepted. You can also submit receipts for reimbursement throughout the process and don’t need to wait until after the surgery. You can live anywhere in Canada and will still be reimbursed to travel to Toronto.
Anyone can help by sharing this post.
If you’d like answers to any questions about living liver donation, contact:
Centre for Living Organ Donation at UHN
Phone: 416-340-5400
Email: livingorgandonation@UHN.ca
Website: http://www.uhn.ca/.../Centre_for_Living_Organ_Donation
You can ask questions anonymously to learn more about living liver donation. Communications between a potential living donor and donor team are confidential and not shared with the recipient.
The UHN Centre for Living Donation hosts a monthly online information session for Potential Living Liver Donors: http://www.eventbrite.ca/.../the-centre-for-living-organ...
There is also a Canadian Facebook group that may be helpful: Organ transplant recipients and living donors in Canada: Organ transplant recipients and living donors in Canada
Please share this with anyone you know who might be willing to help. We will need someone brave and generous to give the gift of life.
Thank you so much to anyone who applies and spreads the word. We are all deeply grateful to you.

