Past President Dan was presidential in President John’s absence today.
Guests:
Anne Overhoff, our speaker today.
Humour:
Under the title ‘Truth can be stranger than fiction’ or, you just can’t make this stuff up, Dan read us an account of a finicky hotel guest and and his soapy contretemps with hotel staff.
Announcements:
Take your Rotanza $$ to Polito Ford
Mark your calendar April 2nd for a food packing party - more to come.
Note from “Snowtarion” Derek Denson in Florida: The club he attends there enjoyed a meeting where they packed 12,000 lb. of food in an hour and a half.
No meeting February 15th, Family Day.
Rotanza meeting of the whole committee February 22nd
Duty Roster February 22:
Sergeant at Arms: Adam Hayward, Greg Evans
Greeter/prize: Marlene Morrison Nicholls
Thanker/Finemaster: Greg Clements
Humorist: Charlie
Finemaster:
Happy dollars were donated by;
Blair and Rohan, for whom we sang Happy Birthday and fines were collected from those sitting next to the birthday boys.
Jim celebrated a 4 year old grandson’s high score in a hockey game
Marlene is looking forward to seeing her daughter in Calgary where the weather is supposed to be better than here.
Michelle appreciates Blair for filling in as Sergeant at Arms
Greg is in need of a trade for the 22nd Sergeant at Arms duties
John Bennett paid a dollar so he could remind us gently about late club dues of $225.00 and to warn delinquents that his reminders won’t be as subtle in March.
50/50:
Christine pulled the 3 of diamonds and won $5. The pot lives!
Anne Overhoff is the Director of Critical Care, Medicine and Patient Flow at the Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay. Anne is here today to talk to us about Organ and Tissue Donation. Anne is a Registered Nurse and after nine years in health related administrative work, she took a position at ‘the Ross’ about six years ago.
The Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) is a not-for-profit agency of the Government of Ontario. TGLN plans, promotes, coordinates and supports organ and tissue donation and transplantation across Ontario. Its mission is to save and enhance lives through the gift of organ and tissue donation and transplantation in Ontario. In November of 2014, ‘the Ross’ became a ‘Gift of LIfe’ hospital. Now, whenever a death occurs in patients who satisfy criteria for donation, hospital staff contact TGLN to ascertain whether the patient has registered as a potential organ or tissue donor.
You can be a donor. But remember that signing a donor card and sticking it in your wallet or purse doesn’t necessarily mean that upon your death someone will know. You have to register with TGLN to make sure that when you die, the right questions will be asked. And you can register by going to beadonor.ca
One organ donor can save up to 8 lives and enhance as many as 75 more through the gift of tissue.
Questions?.... go to the website. Anne answered one question that gets asked often. How will you know I’m dead? Brain activity can be measured. If it’s not working, they can tell. If your heart stops and won’t restart, it’s pretty much obvious that you are suffering from something from which there is no chance of recovery. At that point, a conversation ensues between the health professionals and the family as to quality of life and cessation of life support.
Another question was relative to how the donor would look in an open casket. Without knowing there was an undertaker in the audience, Anne said funeral directors were pretty good at making people look ok. (Your humble scribe might have used a more superlative term.)
Anne recounted a personal experience from her nursing days when she was part of the team tasked with preparing the deceased patient for transplant surgery. She was gratified to be part of a team helping many patients through one selfless act of the donor.
More than 85% of Ontarians support the concept of organ and tissue donation and transplant however, only 25% have registered their consent to donate.
There being nothing more for the good of Rotary, PP Dan left us with a thought; "A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling, to do the unnecessary." Fred Allen
