Thank You isn't enough | Tissue donor | Family growth | My personal Story

Photographer playing nurse! For the next few weeks I will be nursing my husband and driving him around to appointments for his knee. He is doing well, even though he did give me a scare and the nurses and doctors weren’t sure whether to keep him over night. His oxygen level kept dropping as soon as he would drift asleep again. Than the vomiting started! Not so fun watching and unable to do anything to easy the one you love.

Let me tell you how much life is amazing and how much we can forget the value of it? With my husband having knee surgery, he tore a tissue that is important to the leg function (I don’t know the proper terms or very good at repeating what came out of the doctors/nurse mouths lol) so we can enjoy our daily lives. Walking, running, biking and even just propping that leg up on a chair for the Captain Morgan look lol.  My husband explained that they would take his tissue and repair it. Okay understood! Well in recovery the nurse hands me a brochure with the information of a donor!  I began to read and I wanted to start balling my eyes out right there but I sucked them right up.

This tissue program allows donor’s families to hear from the recipients who received such a gift. We won’t know who they are, but we can give our first names and what we like and how it helped. To help a life in such a rewarding way like this, a life is no longer living and people who get this gift get to enjoy those simple things we take for granted like running again. For me, I want to write this family and express how thank full I am for allowing my husband to still enjoy life. He has someone’s tissue in him, tissue that can help rebuild his knee so he can continue his career as a Marine. I am so proud, in the way a mother would be proud. Because it’s a huge honor to have such a gift! This gift may not be a heart transplant, lungs, eyes, kidney, liver, and so forth of organs. But the fact is, tissue is just as important and needs for our bodies to function. So again a life was ended in order for this donation to happen. I can’t thank the family enough!

I’m a donor and proud to be, this feeling I had today I know when my time has ended another family member will have the same joy as I did today. 

Hope you enjoyed reading a little about this gal and her family!