Life throws many interesting curve balls at each and every one of us and yet, know one knows exactly what to expect or what will happen.
I look at my new, shiny and precious grandson and want to wrap him in cotton-wool and make sure the world doesn't spoil this bundle of love.
As I watch a program about a young girl on 60 minutes, who having fluid drained from her brain at 4 years of age, she started having compulsive fitting, whereby her mother, under medical advice, had literally half her brain removed.
They interviewed someone else who had half her brain removed, now in her late twenties, and without much use of her left side of her body, she can still drive, recently completed her Masters degree and is a ten-pin bowling champion.
The funny moment was when she stated that as the missing half created a cavity in her head, which later filled with spinal fluid, if she moves too quickly, she said there's a kind of 'sloshing' sound, humour - still intact.
We have such a gift of life that to abuse, misuse or even neglect it seems futile in having a reasonably healthy life in the first place.
Now consider organ donation, some people have the misfortune of not having such a healthy existence whereby their bodies break down and don't function normally. Unlike a car, spare parts can't be picked up off the shelf and replaced so easily.
Hence, the need for people to honestly say that their organs can be and are free to be used upon their death, now that's a gift you can't buy for someone, a new lease of life.
The upcoming project bodes well for reasoning out the registration of organ donation, but the truth is, people are cautious and unaware of the simplicity or ability to register for organ donation.
PR people, that's now your task.
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