Alex is Donate Life's Person of Year 2010

[Emerald]

From Sabine Atkins on Facebook:

Alex O'Loughlin is Donate Life Hollywood's Person of the Year 2010!!! He is so immensely grateful for having won, it is a big honor for him. We, all of his fans worldwide, made it happen!! I will write more soon on the website, for now, I can say that he ABSOLUTELY LOVES us for all our support. xoxo Sabine

[Hope91]

Oh, such brilliant news. I knew Alex would win - he must be over the moon for all the hard work he put into organ donation awareness.

Was Sabine Atkins at the event?

[Emerald]

Was Sabine Atkins at the event?

Yes she was.

[redwinter101]

Here's a blog from Donate Life with brief details of the event - and a lovely video. Everyone looked to be having a marvellous time - including Alex.

http://donatelife-organdonation.blogspo ... al_12.html

Red

[wpgrace]

And here is Alex accepting the award...

On YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df2C_-hfFMc

And on DLA site: http://donatelife-organdonation.blogspo ... _8420.html

[francis]

Wow! I can't play video at the moment but it's so cool that he won.
Congratulations, Alex, you deserve it.

[Phoenix]

Hey, congratulations Alex.

[Emerald]

*cross posted from H-50 Fans*

Sabine was granted an interview with Alex as well. Tenaya had said she was going to try and make sure Sabine did get to interview Alex, but of course neither of us wanted to count our chickens before they hatched, so to speak. These Hollywood events can get pretty hectic, and there's usually a lot of different people vying for stars attention, so we weren't sure if Alex would have the time, or whether or not we'd be able to squeeze in past all the other press in order to ask him any questions. So it's wonderful that Tenaya did that for us, that she did make sure Sabine got the interview we'd been planning. I'll have to go send Tenaya a note of sincere thanks in a moment.

As for the questions, we had something I wrote up posted on the main blog, plus across most of the ML and Alex Forums, and Myspace etc, that included a special Email address for people to post questions to, and we received hardly any questions. I'm sure Sabine would have asked what ones she did get, but depending on how long she was able to interview Alex for, the rest will be ones we came up with ourselves. We agreed as well that our first priority was to be questions relating to Alex's work with Donate Life.

I haven't heard from Sabine yet. I was going to pass on my phone number to her before she left for the event, but I figured it wasn't fair for her to be calling long distance to Australia. I'm sure she'll have everything up, and posted as soon as she can.

The Alex O'Loughlin Fans for Donate Life also put together a little introductory/information gift folder for Alex. It included pictures of all of us, plus just letters of introduction saying who we were, why/how we got involved with supporting Donate Life, how Alex inspires us, fun bits and pieces about us, etc. I'm sure if Sabine was allowed to interview Alex he would have received the gift from us as well.

I included my story of why I decided to become involved with supporting Donate Life and Organ Donation. I can't post it anywhere in full because I didn't have permission from the families or people involved that I spoke about, so it's only being shared with a very limited number of people. Basically I spoke about a couple of people I had known/knew, one of whom was waiting for a Liver Transplant and was now suffering brain damage from Liver Failure, and another girl who would have eventually faced a Lung/Heart transplant, but who had died before she'd even had a chance for that to be a consideration.

This was the last part of the letter....

These are just two stories. There are others, other people I know facing the reality of eventually becoming an Organ Transplant Recipient. Or those who are on a waiting list, but whose condition has since deteriorated to the point where they will no longer be able to survive surgery. None of these people deserve to be sick, or die. **** doesn’t deserve to be a brain damaged former shell of herself; **** didn’t deserve to die. And neither do the tens, of hundreds, of thousands of other people in the world currently waiting for a life saving, life changing Organ Transplant.

This is why I support the work of Donate Life, and other similar organisations around the world, in their efforts to promote, encourage, educate, and raise awareness of Organ Donation, and to support the Transplant recipient community. And this is why I have devoted myself to working for the Alex O’Loughlin Fans for Donate Life.

I shared this with Tenaya as well. She said she wanted to pass it on to Alex so he could read it as well. I was so very honoured, and humbled that she was going to do that.

[wondergirl9847]

That's awesome Emerald! Thanks for keeping us in the loop regarding Sabine and the AOL Fans for Donate Life.

Congratulations to Alex! I knew he'd win it.

[Lilly]

Thank you for sharing this with us, Em.

[allegrita]

I'm sure Alex will be really touched by that, Em.

[wpgrace]

Thanks for coordinating all this, Em... and for your lovely letter.
And I imagine y'all didn't get many questions because we knew the interview would be brief, and we trusted you all to ask good ones in the little bit of time that Sabine would have.

I am delighted to know that she DID get her chance, and I look forward to hearing how it all went. What they said to one another.

Nice job, both of you girls!

[darkstarrising]

thanks, Em for sharing with us and for all your involvement in Donate for Life

[Emerald]

Thanks guys, and you're all very welcome.

It has been an honour for me to not only work for such a worthwhile cause, but to work alongside Sabine as well. She is one of the sweetest, most integral people I've had the pleasure of knowing.

[redwinter101]

(courtesy AOLR)