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Chad
Forum Leader
Username: Horace_mann
Post Number: 153
Registered: 12-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 09:44 am: | 
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Last night I was invited to Intermountain Donor Services annual volunteer appreciation dinner in Salt Lake City. It was the first time I've stood in the midst of so many organ recipients and it was truly awe inspiring.
My biggest take away was HOPE. One gentleman received his second heart transplant a couple of years ago and his 13 year old daughter had also had a heart transplant just last year - THREE heart transplants within the same family. Amazing.
I ate dinner with Jason who received his new heart in March of this year after waiting nine months. I also met the mother of a 19 year old young man who, upon his death, unflinchingly and with tremendous courage agreed to donate his organs - heart, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, liver. I was riveted and tremendously moved by every story and wanted to hear them all. What an evening!
Chad - non-directed kidney donor Oct. 2007
'OCTODONOR' |
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max
Forum Leader
Username: Max
Post Number: 99
Registered: 09-2010
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 09:38 pm: |
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Wow Chad - it truly sounds like an incredible evening. I to would have wanted to hear all the stories.
Thanks for sharing this.
max
10.20.2010 non-directed kidney donor
'OCTODONOR'
"Giving the Gift of Life - is Life Changing" |
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Rise
Board Administrator
Username: Rise
Post Number: 14899
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 09:59 pm: |
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Thank you Chad for sharing.
A miracle evening it was! Glad that you were invited and shared in this beautiful experience. I am so proud to know you and all the living donors on this forum. I salute you ALL!!
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Kate/Jeremy's Mom
Member
Username: Dixieluvinchik
Post Number: 224
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Monday, November 15, 2010 - 10:52 pm: |
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Chad, It was a miracle evening, I'm so glad you got to go.
Chad,& Max, I am also very proud to know you two! Lady DI, Heather, and our other living donors also Rule! I salute you ALL!!
Love, Kate
Kate/Jeremy's Mom
Jeremy donated Easter morning,4/12/2009
-"How can we not be organ/tissue donors?" -Jeremy D. 11/28/80 - 04/11/09
- Baton Rouge,LA. USA- |
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