Tag Archives: Donate Life

Misinformation in the transplant community?

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Scott Linscott

If you believed in your transplant team enough to have them cut into you, cut out an organ and sew in a donated one, why do you refuse to believe them when it comes to vaccines? Continue reading →

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Someone call the zoo!

Posted on September 5, 2020 by Scott Linscott

By Scott Linscott There’s been an escape! Call the zoo! Someone left the door to the monkey cage open. I’m pretty sure these are howler monkeys because they are LOUD. I think they came here because they heard someone say … Continue reading →

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Will your Rotary club meet the 100% challenge?

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Scott Linscott

Following a presentation that I made at our District 7780 Rotary gathering at Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth, Maine during the summer of 2019, the District Governor, Andrew Glazier, asked, “why couldn’t we make this a challenge for all our … Continue reading →

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4 years today. A good, good Father.

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Scott Linscott

My eyes opened for the day just before 4:00 AM. I listened to the birds coming awake in the trees just outside our bedroom window and thought “how blessed I am.” I spent some time talking to God about the … Continue reading →

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My wide-eyed wonder girl gave me a wonderful gift

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Scott Linscott

Yesterday, the joy-for-life tears that have been ever-present since my liver transplant in May of 2012, fell off my cheeks again. It was 6:55 in the morning. I gave up on sleep shortly after 3:00 from tossing and turning and … Continue reading →

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CAUTION: Homeopathic rant ahead

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Scott Linscott

I’m ticked off. Pissed actually. I don’t like rants and I am not a fan of drama but, for the love of Pete, could we maybe tone down the homeopathic aggression maybe a notch or ten? Yeah, I’m biased on … Continue reading →

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“This is what it’s all about, baby!”

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Scott Linscott

I just did something impossibly crazy. Yesterday, shivering and soaked to the skin, I cried ugly tears while rolling across a finish line after pedaling 180 miles in the Trek Across Maine. People under umbrellas shook cow bells, blew horns … Continue reading →

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I take a lot of drugs. Most are not what you expect.

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Scott Linscott

I take drugs. I take seven prescriptions a day. You’re betting that’s due to my liver transplant, right? Wrong. It’s true that I will have to take medicine for the rest of my life to keep from rejecting my new … Continue reading →

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Somebody pinch me. Am I dreaming?

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Scott Linscott

I’m on my third cup of coffee. I just polished off the eggs and bacon breakfast fuel I made on the hotplate here in the studio portion of a timeshare we own in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We … Continue reading →

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Reliving my transplant nightmare

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Scott Linscott

Remember that book I was working on writing? I let it sit, untouched, from September 2013 until December 2014 when I gave it to my friend Jan Perry to read and clean up. She was my second reader. It’s about 60,000 … Continue reading →

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PUSHing through and checking off goals in my liver transplant recovery. Donate Life cycling team.

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Scott Linscott

I never want to go through what I endured again on my transplant journey. It was a hell I would not wish on my worst enemy. But now, 28 months out, I see the good that has come. Continue reading →

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What do you do when grasshoppers devour your life?

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Scott Linscott

I will post our family Christmas letter tomorrow. It is a run-of-the-mill, holiday brag letter extolling all of the good things of 2013. Yeah, it’s one of those look-how-wonderful-we-are pieces that comedians joke about and some people hate. Know what? … Continue reading →

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Liver biopsies ain’t no fun

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Scott Linscott

Slogans. Mottos. Most businesses have them. It’s stuff like, “Service with a smile” or “We don’t spit in your tacos.” I could probably quiz you on famous and well-known slogans and you would do well. Try some. Just do it … Continue reading →

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Is it time to put it all behind me? Forget it?

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Scott Linscott

I can’t help but be amazed by the passing of time and how it changes things. Last summer I attended two weddings and left both early. Both were major accomplishments for me since I was just weeks post transplant. Everyone … Continue reading →

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I can’t breathe …

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Scott Linscott

There’s a 50 pound bag of cement sitting on my chest. No, wait. There are two. They are so heavy that I can barely breathe. Crushing. Suffocating. But, the strange thing is that even though I feel like I have … Continue reading →

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