Thursday, August 06, 2009

The Gift of Life

As I type this, there is a 5-year-old girl I know who is receiving the ultimate gift - the gift of a heart and of a new life. And as her family rejoiced at the news that a donor had  been found, another family grieved for the loss of their loved one. 

Please keep both families in your thoughts today. 

For more information on organ donation, please visit http://www.donatelife.net/.

2 comments:

nana said...

Isn't that the craziest thing? I worked in a cardiac ICU where people were being kept alive while waiting for a heart... You get so attached to your patients and hope for a heart for them and then it hits you - someone died for this happiness. It's such a great gift.. I hope I die in such a way that I can donate organs. I also hope that it will be quick and relatively pain free :)

Rosalie Reibel said...

Amazing. Thank you for sharing this special moment.