Are you a Mac or a PC?

Honestly, we won’t judge you either way. We are just glad that Steve Jobs , CEO of Apple Inc, is not only recovering well from his liver transplant last year, but also that he is publicly speaking about it.

Of course everyone’s story about the struggle and strength of undergoing an organ transplant is so important for the public to hear as it helps spread the word and personalize the need to register as an organ donor. But obviously it really helps the cause when someone so well known speaks out about organ donation as their reach is so far and their voice is heard loudly.

Jobs first underwent surgery for a rare form of cancer in 2004 and then  had his liver transplant in March 2009, traveling to a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, because no compatible liver donors were available in his home state of California.

According to a recent Bloomberg Newsweek article about Jobs, the experience prompted the normally very private Jobs to talk publicly about his transplant. In March he reached out to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to back new state legislation aimed at encouraging organ donations.

Jobs said at a March 19 event at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California that he was lucky to get a liver in time as there were not enough livers to go around.

People on the Apple campus are seeing more and more of Jobs as he gets healthier. They are also noticing his creativity and energy are back which is probably pretty obvious with the release of the Apple iPad!

So whether you are a Mac or PC, please continue to use your voice (and your computer!)  like Jobs and the many other heroes who speak on behalf of organ donation to help promote the gift of life every day.