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Liver Giver
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Username: Beteboop
Post Number: 578
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 11:30 pm: | 
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Awesome, inspiring night that I am so proud to be a part of in my brother's memory.
Dawn
Forum Leader Living Organ Donation
Liver Donor 11/19/07 to brother Anthony
Good and bad things happen in life, but what matters, what defines us, is how we handle them |
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Heather
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Username: Heather
Post Number: 2246
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 01, 2009 - 12:22 am: |
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Love the pictures, Dawn..and really love your shirt. You are doing some awesome things!!! Thank you for sharing.
Heather
Forum Leader - Living Organ Donation
EC Illinois, USA
Kidney donor to dad 12/1/99
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes, Chicago
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LadyDi
Member
Username: Ladydi
Post Number: 1641
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Monday, May 04, 2009 - 12:55 am: |
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Love the shirt! Sounds as if you had a great night, Dawn.
Kidney Donor to Husband 10/30/07
Forum Leader-Living Organ Donation
Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, Mo
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Trisha
Member
Username: Thanley
Post Number: 838
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Monday, May 04, 2009 - 09:47 pm: |
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Dawn.....you are beautiful and everything your heart and mind touch is astounding. Your actions are drawn from inner experience that reaches goals and heights that even you thought could not be possible just a few short month ago. It is possible. You make it possible. I am very proud to have you as my friend and as a person who reaches out to others and says..."See what I have been through. See all that I have done. See where compassion, strength, and love has brought me. I am not a person who is missing things, I am a person who has found things."
Never lost, Dawn, always found. That's who and what you are and I could not be a prouder friend! Remember when I told you that in due time you will see exactly why things happen to some of us? Things that make no sense will eventually bring clarity? I am so glad to see you finding that and embracing it. Anthony had plans for you through him and your journey together. I love your pictures and I love your tenacity. I just love YOU!
Trisha
Forum Leader - Living Donation
Kidney Donor Candidate 2007
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Liver Giver
Member
Username: Beteboop
Post Number: 586
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 05, 2009 - 08:45 am: |
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Thanks Heather, Di and Trish,
Trish sometimes I truly think you have more faith in my strength than I do. Thank you so much for your loving, compliments. The words you say always touch my heart.
It isn't really about "see what I have been through" rather it is "see what my family has been through" and was it necessary and could it have been different?
In the last 18 months my life changed from what it was to what I never could have dreamed it would be. Having major surgery, watching my brother begin to heal, watching my family becoming built up in faith in his recovery, watching him decline and the faith continue. Watching him die and watching my parents lose their only son. I pray God never puts me on my plate for me. Watching my parents change, especially my mom, into a woman I never knew, vulnerable, hurt, unable to find peace. I was so afraid of losing her... then she found her new home in Georgia and she loves it there. She is like a newborn who is just learning to run and she is laughing and loving and loving life. Now my Dad is with her and believe me I feel like I lost my entire family in the last year. I know it is what is best for my parents but it hurts like hell to have them gone.
What I do now gives me peace. It brings me to a place where I feel I can possibly make a difference in someone's day. Sometimes in their world. If that is the journey the Lord has put me on, and the price to bring me to that place was my brother, well, that is a hard pill to swallow, but I do and I remind myself every morning as I pray that today is for Anthony. Every breath, everytime I smell a flower, see the beach, feel the rain on my face, watch a sunset (I don't often see the sunrise), those experiences are for both of us. I mean it when I say he lives on my heart. I also meant it when I told my parents that I would NEVER allow Anthony's memory to die. His name and his journey will always be spread by my mouth as long as I have the ability. That is my journey.
Thank you again, talk to you all again soon.
Dawn
Forum Leader Living Organ Donation
Liver Donor 11/19/07 to brother Anthony
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