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max
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Username: Max
Post Number: 48
Registered: 09-2010
| | Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 08:34 am: | 
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I'll admit, this may be a bit out there - but I feel compelled to share it here, with family.
A couple of days ago this metaphor came to me:
When a bulb is first planted - and it finally bust's out of the earth - it is very vulnerable . . . .
much like our infant years
Then as the stem is growing bigger and stronger to someday hold it's beautiful blossom - and sometimes it really goes through a lot - hit by mowers, stepped-on, the neighborhood dog . . . .
much like our adolescent and young adult years - certainly for me, some of life's toughest times
Victorious so far - and having a strong stem and able to weather some of mother-natures harshest conditions . . . . . .
Our strong years - confidence, self-assured and nurturing
Now is the time - the Flower opens-up to reveal, all its beauty to see . . . .
Now is the time - the Donor opens-up and offers an Organ to someone in need
I believe the Donor has always been in us - we've just Blossomed . . . .
max
"We are continually faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." |
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Karen
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Username: Pandaparade
Post Number: 31
Registered: 09-2010
| | Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 09:00 am: |
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What a beautiful analogy! You have me in tears. I am struggling so much right now with the fact that my husband's family won't volunteer to donate, even to be tested for his sake. He'll probably have to wait years on dialysis because they won't come forward to help him. When I read of your willingness to donate, and to a stranger at that, it is so heartwarming. I've been told I have the "Jerry Lewis" syndrome, like in that movie "The Disorderly Orderly" where he works in a hospital & feels all the pain of every patient he comes across. I am moved to help others & it is alien to me to see a family ignore the needs of their "loved one". I hope so much I can be part of a couples match or chain to help my husband get his kidney.
Thank you for sharing your encouraging thoughts & what I consider poetry. |
Chad
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Username: Horace_mann
Post Number: 132
Registered: 12-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 10:40 am: |
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Nicely said Max.
This past week I volunteered to sit at a booth for the Utah Donor Registry. It was my first time witnessing first-hand how people respond to the idea of being an organ donor. Happily most quite proudly displayed their driver's license with the large red "Y" next to "DONOR."
The follow up question, "Have you shared your wishes with your family?" wasn't as easily answered. Most had not. In Utah, even if a person has the donor indicator on their license the family can override that decision and in fact often do so when caught off guard on what for them is a horrible, horrible day. How much simpler it would be if registered donors shared their wishes with family members and even included this in legal documents (a living will) so there's absolutely no question and no tough decisions that need to be made by a grieving family.
Everyone blossoms in different ways and at different seasons of their lives. We all need to do our part to ensure others bloom to their absolute fullest potential. I think we'd agree that's what this forum is all about.
On August 10, 2010 - 346 new organ donor names "bloomed" on the Utah Wall of Honor located at the Celebration of Life Monument on Library Square in Salt Lake City. The wall was erected in 2004 to recognize Utahans’ who’ve given the gift of life.
| Chad - non-directed kidney donor Oct. 2007 |
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