This morning while Lee and I were watching The Morning Show we were able to see two families share their experience with a transplant. This particular program involved a heart transplant. The donor heart came from a 13 year-old daughter who had a skiing accident and was declared brain dead. The recipient was a 32 year-old mother of two who was dying of heart disease. Through a series of coincidinces and leads they were brought together. The mother of the child's donor heart listened to her child's heartbeat in the recipient. It was an extraodinary moment.
As we watched we were both moved to tears realizing once again this tremendous gift that was given to Lee. Without the donor lung, Lee would have died. The doctors have told us that he would not have lived through the Summer. As I type this blog, I look across the room at my husband who appears to be healthy and normal. He is now able to walk greater distances without the help of the rolator and even has a slight spring in his step. As he is sitting there, he is enjoying breaths of air that now enter the new lung without any struggle whatsoever. His color is nice and pink and he is now the picture of health. How grateful I am to the family of the donor lung! It is with thankful hearts that we offer this prayer of thanksgiving for the skill of the surgeons, the compassion of the caregivers both in the hospital and the clinic and for all our friends and family for accompanying us on this journey. Most of all, we thank the family of the donor lung for their generiosity in making a decision to help others during their own time of grief and sorrow.
The weather promises to be cool and lovely over the week-end. Tomorrow we plan to do a lot of walking practice and on Sunday we are looking forward to visiting neice, Genice and husband Roger for lunch in Raleigh. Dennis and Betsy plan to join us there. It is always a treat to be able to go places again.
We wish you all a wonderful Autumn week-end. Enjoy this lovely weather!
More Later..................................Brenda
I happened to see that as well. The organ donation was an amazing gift for them on the show and us. I think those stories should be told more often so more people will be willing to be donors. There are many that wait a long time to get organs and some that don't survive.
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