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EB Queens Courier_EB Queens Corier 1/13/16 1:19 PM Page 1 36 HOMEREPORTER.COM bROOKLYN’S TOP DOCTORS Now’s the Time to Sign Up Make signing up in the Donate Life Registry your New Year’s resolution and you may someday leave the beautiful gift of sight to someone who is blind. There is no cost to be a donor and even people who wear glasses, can donate. According to The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, a non-profit organization serving the Greater New York City area, hundreds of men, women and children can be saved from blindness each year with sight-saving cornea transplants made possible with donor eye tissue. And more than 10,000 other New Yorkers who are waiting for life-saving organ and tissue transplants can be helped through organ and tissue donation. Donating your eyes and other organs at death can restore sight and health to persons in need. By signing up in the NYS Donate Life Registry you can make a difference in someone else’s life. To date, there are more than three million individuals registered to become donors in New York’s Registry. Be counted among them in 2016. There are a number of ways New Yorkers can sign up in the Donate Life Registry starting with when you are getting a new or renewed driver’s license either in person at a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office or when completing forms by mail. It’s easy and only takes a minute to sign up. Of course 2016 is a presidential election year and if registering to vote in New York State is also on your resolution list, whether for the first time, or if you have moved since voting last, you will find another opportunity to enroll in the Donate Life Registry. Look for the section to state your wishes to be an eye, organ and tissue donor on the forms provided by the New York State Board of Elections. Lastly, one can visit The Eye-Bank’s web site, www.eyedonation.org, and click on the “Become a Donor” button to download a form. Or, call The Eye-Bank at (212) 742-9000 and ask to be sent an enrollment form in the mail. Whether you sign up when getting a new driver’s license, registering to vote or by going to The Eye-Bank’s web site, your specific wishes about eye, organ and tissue donation will be entered and the New York State Department of Health will send you a letter confirming you are in the State’s Donate Life Registry. “I signed up!” Once you sign up to become a donor, encourage your family and friends to do the same. Join the thousands of friends on Facebook who have posted their decision to donate on their status bars. Or go to www.eyedonation. org and “like” The Eye-Bank on Facebook. Registered donors can share their story with friends and urge others to sign up to give the gift of sight and life. For more information about eye donation and the good that it can do, call The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration (212) 742-9000 or go to www.eyedonation.org. EYE AM SO PROUD. My husband signed up to become a donor and I was proud to honor his wishes to give two New Yorkers the gift of sight. There are thousands of New Yorkers who are losing their sight and they are depending on us to help. Give the beautiful gift of sight and honor your loved one’s wishes to be a donor. It only takes a minute. Sign up online at eyedonation.org or call 212-742-9000. O F N E W Y O R K See what your eyes can do for other s. ® 2 1 2 - 742 - 9 0 0 0 WWW.EYEDONATION.ORG #EYESIGNEDUP ©2015 The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, Inc. Kathleen B. Donor Wife


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