30 Heroes in 30 Days

Donate Life Maryland is running a special campaign during the month of April to celebrate Donate Life Month. The campaign is called 30 Stories / 30 Days and is designed to honor 30 heroes. Each day in April, the initiative will feature a different organ donor from Maryland by telling their story and how they made a difference and saved lives with one simple decision - signing up to be an organ and tissue donor.

Donate Life Maryland has one goal with this initiative - encouraging people to register as an organ and tissue donor. Natalie Benavides, Executive Director of Donate Life Maryland, said the organization "... wants to remind people about the life on the other end ... There is someone who gets to see their daughter get married ... Real stories of people who get to return to work." Maryland is blessed with nearly 2.2 million registered organ and tissue donors which translates to just under 50% of the state's adult population. If you have not made the decision to be an organ and tissue donor, I want to encourage you to do so today. You can visit the Donate Life America website (click here or on the banner above) to learn more and find how to register in your state.

Source : HometownAnnapolis.com article titled Annapolis Family Featured in Statewide Donor Campaign

The Sheepdog's back with "Livin' on a Prayer"

After a nice two week break to do some other things, The Sheepdog's back. The website renovation is coming along well, but it'll take a few weeks for me to finish up the new look. In the meantime, it's time for Music Monday again.

Bon Jovi is the feature today. These guys were one of the most popular and most successful bands of the '80s. They sold millions of records and scored some #1 song's during that era. One of their biggest hits was today's featured video - "Livin' on a Prayer." The song was on the band's 1986 album Slippery When Wet which reached number one and has sold more than 28 million copies making it the band's biggest selling album of their career. I hope everyone enjoys watching it.

Furthermore, in my last blog post before my break, I stated that April is Donate Life Month. Therefore, I will focus on organ and tissue transplant issues in my posts this month. One reason I ran "Livin' on a Prayer" today, besides the fact it's a great song, is because over 110,000 Americans are currently on the national waiting list for a life saving organ transplant. They are indeed living on a prayer. The good news is that there is hope for them if more people will sign up to be donors. If you haven't signed up, I encourage you to visit the Donate Life America website today (click here) to find out how to do so where you live.

(My e-mail subscribers, as well as others, can also watch the video by clicking here.)