July 24, 2024 • 5 mins
Kate Sanderson joins Jonesy & Amanda to talk about her experience with organ donation.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Kate Sanderson was thirty six when she was caught in
a wildfire while running the Kimberly Ultra Marathon alongside to reapit.
Kate received burns to sixty percent of her body and
was put it in an induced coma for nineteen days,
but thanks to two different organ donors, Kate was given
a second chance at life to talk about all things
organ donation and all things Kate Sanderson. She joins us. Now, Hello, Kate, Hi,
(00:28):
thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Good to have you on, Kate.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Kate, how do you feel when you when we ask
you to look back at that day? Is this is
it still trauma for you? Or have you packaged it up?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's not traumatic at all. It's I remember everything, I
can talk about it. I don't get emotional at all.
So yeah, that's very lucky.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, if you don't mind me asking, can you talk
us through that day?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah? Absolutely so. Myself and Will running in the Kinderly
oldtra Marathon and many you would know Teria and we
were about twenty five kilometers into it and we came
across Inner Gorge and I was running with a friends
and I didn't know Karia at that time, and we
looked up and there was fire funneling towards us, and
(01:18):
it was still two hundred meters away. And I'm embarrassed
to say that I took out my camera and took
photos of it. It's like, oh, wow, there's a fire
up ahead, and it's not until it started really fast
it was coming towards us that there was sort of
six of us run as we bunched up and started
talking about what we're going to do, and we didn't
have maps for GPS's or anything, because that was a
(01:41):
criteria of the race. So one of the walls of
the gorge was tall, so we couldn't climb up that.
So the options were run back in front of the fire,
or run up the other side of the cliff to
see if there was a road or some escape route.
So meter of which you're supposed to do, you're never
supposed to run up. But that's what the six of
(02:01):
us chose. And unfortunately, as we're getting up the heel,
the why I hit the heel and as you know,
it goes fast uphill, and yeah, four of us ended
up getting burned.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You're in a coma for nineteen days. So as you
say you remember everything you went from being on that
hill to then waking up in hospital.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes, yeah, I woke up in the Alfred and I
believe Teraria went to the Concorde in New South Wales
and yeah, absolutely that was one thing to survive the fire,
but it was like a four year recovery afterwards.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And you received donated skin from two different donors. I
didn't even know that you could donate skin.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I know. I feel so ignorant as well, because it
didn't occur to me till a couple of years after
my accident, and my skin was an organ. So absolutely
I received two donors and they basically gave me a
second chance of life. Because burns patients one of the
leading causes of death is infections to close open wounds,
(03:06):
and I didn't have enough good skin on me to
be able to close my own wounds. So I had
good skin on my torso and so they could take
the skin off there, but then they had to wait
two weeks for it to grow back to harvest another round.
So it would have taken months to close my wounds
(03:26):
had it not been for the donors.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
How do you go about donating skin?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well, I believe it's the same as organ donation. When
you register, you register and you can select I think,
what you want to donate, or you can select everything,
and skin is included.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
As far as I know, does it come from a
living donor.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No, I believe it's not. I don't actually know, but
I think, yeah, a personal skin.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
No, it's not necessarily like that someone's walking around with
no skin.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Not necessarily that. But I've done stories with beyond two
thousand where they can make synthetic skin from actual skin cells.
So I don't know how much I need.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It, Kate. I've got a bit of skin left over
skin hanging around.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'll grab it. I'll grab it this old bull bag.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
After that's the last thing, Kate, Kate.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Organ donations begin my family. My nephew had a liver
transplant as a baby. And as we're saying, when you
think of organ donation, you don't think of skin. But
what an incredible survival story thanks to generous donus for you, Kate.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh yeah, absolutely. Like I was a donut in my
twenties and I got my little card, and I thought
I was all grown up. I found my card suddenly
enough a couple of years ago and I've written on
the back of it please take nothing off my face. Yeah,
now I'm fine, take what you want. Yeah, it's just
(04:52):
so easy to register. It's just literally, I believe it's
on the my galve app or the Medicare app. It's
just minutes.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Reading about it. Yeah, you just go. You register as
an organ and tissue donut because you've got to do
that these days. You can't just put it on your
license like I had on my license.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
No, you have to actively READI go to donate.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Life dot gov dot au and with three taps on
your Express plus Medicare app.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
But also tell your loved ones because so that they
know in a crisis moment that those are your wishes.
It's also important. And Kate, you're in good health now.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh yeah, absolutely, I'm loving life. I'm getting back into
you know, most things, I can't run, but I can
fill my weekends and life with sport and all the
things I love to do. So everything's great.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I think the running's done.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You just be like, that's it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That'll do me, that'll do yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, yeah, maybe you take a windsurfing, Kate, yeah, or
chair something. Well, that's great. Thank you for joining us Kate.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Thanks very much, Kate Sanderson there
And Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Kate Sanderson was thirty six when she was caught in
a wildfire while running the Kimberly Ultra Marathon alongside to reapit.
Kate received burns to sixty percent of her body and
was put it in an induced coma for nineteen days,
but thanks to two different organ donors, Kate was given
a second chance at life to talk about all things
organ donation and all things Kate Sanderson. She joins us. Now, Hello, Kate, Hi,
(00:28):
thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Good to have you on, Kate.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Kate, how do you feel when you when we ask
you to look back at that day? Is this is
it still trauma for you? Or have you packaged it up?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's not traumatic at all. It's I remember everything, I
can talk about it. I don't get emotional at all.
So yeah, that's very lucky.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, if you don't mind me asking, can you talk
us through that day?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah? Absolutely so. Myself and Will running in the Kinderly
oldtra Marathon and many you would know Teria and we
were about twenty five kilometers into it and we came
across Inner Gorge and I was running with a friends
and I didn't know Karia at that time, and we
looked up and there was fire funneling towards us, and
(01:18):
it was still two hundred meters away. And I'm embarrassed
to say that I took out my camera and took
photos of it. It's like, oh, wow, there's a fire
up ahead, and it's not until it started really fast
it was coming towards us that there was sort of
six of us run as we bunched up and started
talking about what we're going to do, and we didn't
have maps for GPS's or anything, because that was a
(01:41):
criteria of the race. So one of the walls of
the gorge was tall, so we couldn't climb up that.
So the options were run back in front of the fire,
or run up the other side of the cliff to
see if there was a road or some escape route.
So meter of which you're supposed to do, you're never
supposed to run up. But that's what the six of
(02:01):
us chose. And unfortunately, as we're getting up the heel,
the why I hit the heel and as you know,
it goes fast uphill, and yeah, four of us ended
up getting burned.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You're in a coma for nineteen days. So as you
say you remember everything you went from being on that
hill to then waking up in hospital.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes, yeah, I woke up in the Alfred and I
believe Teraria went to the Concorde in New South Wales
and yeah, absolutely that was one thing to survive the fire,
but it was like a four year recovery afterwards.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And you received donated skin from two different donors. I
didn't even know that you could donate skin.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I know. I feel so ignorant as well, because it
didn't occur to me till a couple of years after
my accident, and my skin was an organ. So absolutely
I received two donors and they basically gave me a
second chance of life. Because burns patients one of the
leading causes of death is infections to close open wounds,
(03:06):
and I didn't have enough good skin on me to
be able to close my own wounds. So I had
good skin on my torso and so they could take
the skin off there, but then they had to wait
two weeks for it to grow back to harvest another round.
So it would have taken months to close my wounds
(03:26):
had it not been for the donors.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
How do you go about donating skin?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well, I believe it's the same as organ donation. When
you register, you register and you can select I think,
what you want to donate, or you can select everything,
and skin is included.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
As far as I know, does it come from a
living donor.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
No, I believe it's not. I don't actually know, but
I think, yeah, a personal skin.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
No, it's not necessarily like that someone's walking around with
no skin.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Not necessarily that. But I've done stories with beyond two
thousand where they can make synthetic skin from actual skin cells.
So I don't know how much I need.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It, Kate. I've got a bit of skin left over
skin hanging around.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'll grab it. I'll grab it this old bull bag.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
After that's the last thing, Kate, Kate.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Organ donations begin my family. My nephew had a liver
transplant as a baby. And as we're saying, when you
think of organ donation, you don't think of skin. But
what an incredible survival story thanks to generous donus for you, Kate.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh yeah, absolutely. Like I was a donut in my
twenties and I got my little card, and I thought
I was all grown up. I found my card suddenly
enough a couple of years ago and I've written on
the back of it please take nothing off my face. Yeah,
now I'm fine, take what you want. Yeah, it's just
(04:52):
so easy to register. It's just literally, I believe it's
on the my galve app or the Medicare app. It's
just minutes.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Reading about it. Yeah, you just go. You register as
an organ and tissue donut because you've got to do
that these days. You can't just put it on your
license like I had on my license.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
No, you have to actively READI go to donate.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Life dot gov dot au and with three taps on
your Express plus Medicare app.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
But also tell your loved ones because so that they
know in a crisis moment that those are your wishes.
It's also important. And Kate, you're in good health now.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh yeah, absolutely, I'm loving life. I'm getting back into
you know, most things, I can't run, but I can
fill my weekends and life with sport and all the
things I love to do. So everything's great.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I think the running's done.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You just be like, that's it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That'll do me, that'll do yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, yeah, maybe you take a windsurfing, Kate, yeah, or
chair something. Well, that's great. Thank you for joining us Kate.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Thanks very much, Kate Sanderson there
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