Hey I just wanted to share something pretty cool with you guys. This past Saturday (July 16th) I celebrated 27 years with my liver transplant. I'm usually quite a private person regarding my real life but I definitely love to share this for two reasons and two reasons only....the first is to show that Organ Donation works. I received my transplant when I was 10 months old (I turn 28 in a few months) and back then in the 80's it was a lot more experimental.
The second reason being I want my donor to be remembered. Now my donor was a young boy who fell of a jungle gym and got severe brain damage, I believe the liver was either from Newfoundland or London Ontario. The family asked to keep their information closed so I never got to meet them nor did my Mom. But it is so important to me that I explain that I wouldn't be here without him. It's so powerful to have a piece of someone with you and I hope when I go to the other side I get to to meet him and re pay him somehow.
I wanted to share this with you guys to encourage you to sign up for organ donation if you believe in it and to just value your life......I know some don't believe in organ donation or don't like it and that's okay, everyone has their beliefs and opinions....just please value your life no matter how hard it gets....I feel so blessed to be here. If you'd like to read it, there is an article about my journey and I wanted to share with you guys.
Thank you so much for sharing this. Amazing story, and I was having a bad day, but now feel a little better to know that awesome stuff still happens in the world. I almost died as a baby myself, and I really need to be more grateful for being alive. Thanks
SELFISH!!! LOL nah seriously I've had a few people tell me the same thing and funnily enough I'm good with it.....I really believe everyone has their own beliefs or preferences when they die and whatever they decide is good with me. Everyone has a right to do what they want with their parts lol...doesn't make them selfish in my book, Would I love EVERYONE to donate? Yeah sure but not at the expense of going against what they believe or prefer.
I was also born with a liver disease. Mine was Biliary Atresia and apparently evolved to Cirrhosis, but doctors are not sure as far as I know. Only when I was 10, the doctor said "transplant or death". My parents were terrified( especially my dad who passed away last October and I'm still deeply hurt, crying a lot) and started to wonder if they should sell our apartment to pay it, but God helped us and since my dad was from Navy, they acceptd to pay the whole thing which was ten thousand dollars, if i remeber correctly. For a middle class brazilian family in the 90's it was a huge amount of money, so we're truly blessed. I had a normal life from then and I could do any activity I wanted and eat whatever I wanted.
Sadly, circa 2009 my medication ( which state governement provides for free) was false. And the doctor changed for another one which hurt my good kidney, so I acquired Kidney Failure and started hemodialysis in 2010, which lasted till 2011's November when I received a new kidney and now I can say I have a normal life again, except for the fact I can play soccer or any sport where I can get hit in the transplant area.
Jeez sorry you went through that and continue do. Mine was due to Biliary Atresia as well. I heard the current wait list for organ donation in Canada is about 500 people which is scary.
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