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sonia
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Username: Soniadonor

Post Number: 43
Registered: 03-2009
Posted on Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 11:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hey gang,
One year ago today, I donated my kidney to a 53yr old man. I've never met this man and I hope that someday I will. In recovery, I was told the surgery was a success. I hope that he continues to be healthy.

I hope that if he has a family, that he can spend more time being active with his children and grandchildren. If he has a wife or significant other, I hope that he has a healthy and loving relationship with them. If he has a job, I hope that he is now physically able to go to work daily and succeed. If he has a home, I hope that he can mow his own lawn and fix things around the house. I hope he is physically able to exercise regularily, go for walks, ride a bike. I hope he eats almost anything he wants.

These are just some of my hopes. Quite simple ey? But when you are sick, you want these things so badly! And I also wonder all sorts of stuff, like does he live in Minnesota? Did he check out the new Twins Stadium? Does he prefer beer or wine? Is he in love? What are his faults- is he stubborn, is he always running late, is he too blunt- he must be human!?

It is been a year, I guess I have to call him my 54yr old man now. If he is ever in our TX buddies community someday, if he reads this, I hope he writes.

Hugs,
Sonia
Non-direct kidney donor, Oct 2009
Minneapolis, MN, USA

"We exist temporarily through what we take but, we live forever through what we give." Douglas M. Lawson
Hostess Meagan
Forum Leader
Username: Newheart14

Post Number: 1461
Registered: 01-2009
Posted on Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 01:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hi Sonia,

What an amazing person you are. Thank you for donating to this gentleman. He is probably doing all the things you wish for in your post thanks to your very generous gift of life to him. I hope one day you will get to meet him. Bless you.

Hugs,
Meagan
Forum Leader
Heart-Liver Transplant - February 14, 2008
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy 1991 and CHF

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LadyDi
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Username: Ladydi

Post Number: 2481
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 02:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Congratulations on one year Sonia! You are a special lady!
Hope you are having a wonderful day!
How are you feeling? Doing okay?
Kidney Donor to Husband 10/30/07
Forum Leader-Living Organ Donation
Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, Mo

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max
Forum Leader
Username: Max

Post Number: 75
Registered: 09-2010
Posted on Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 07:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hi Sonia,

Congratulations on the 1 yr anniversary - I've been having a lot of thoughts on the recipient on my kidney. All I know at this time is that the recipient is a child - and the surgery was a success. I wonder if I will be contacted - at this time I'm comforted in knowing, that if God wants me to know - "I will"

Congratulations again - I hope you have a great day - " OCTODONOR"
max
10.20.2010 non-directed kidney donor
'OCTODONOR'


"We are continually faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
Heather
Forum Leader
Username: Heather

Post Number: 3121
Registered: 05-2003
Posted on Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 09:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Sonia, congratulations on your one year anniversary. I hope you and your recipient are both doing well. I hope you have many, many more anniversaries~
Heather

Forum Leader - Living Organ Donation
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EC Illinois, USA
Kidney donor to dad 12/1/99
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes, Chicago

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Rise
Board Administrator
Username: Rise

Post Number: 14755
Registered: 05-2003
Posted on Friday, October 29, 2010 - 08:48 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Dear Sonia

You are such a beautiful person. You are a living example to many of us about how to give from your heart.

Happy Giving Anniversary to you

May your life continue to be rich and blessed with such a beautiful soul.

with love
Rise'
Cystic Fibrosis- dx at 2yrs. -2nd double lung tx-05
Jackson Memorial Hospital

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Chad
Member
Username: Horace_mann

Post Number: 144
Registered: 12-2008
Posted on Friday, October 29, 2010 - 09:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Sonia & Max - your experiences certainly give me pause. I went into non-directed donation with the understanding I would never know the recipient and was ok with that. The information release form signed by the recipient that greeted me as I was admitted was a complete surprise. It was a name and an email address - that was it. Two weeks would pass before we officially met but I did get a beautiful phone call from her mother after being back home a couple of days.

Over the past three years I've wondered how long our relationship would last and have been grateful that we've stayed in contact - more with her mother than with her. It might not always be that way but while it lasts I'll welcome it. With time I hope the reasons we remain friends become greater and more numerous than the reason we became friends. I can see that happening.

I'll also offer this: there's something very pure and uniquely beautiful about never knowing. I have no doubts the hopes Sonia expressed are all true because what you both did is all about hope....Max and Sonia had such an abundance of hope that they couldn't help but share their hope with someone else. It's a love story like no other.
Chad - non-directed kidney donor Oct. 2007
'OCTODONOR'

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