re: Are you an organ donor?

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I am, but I wonder how useful my organs will be after the crap I put them through

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Ditto, but what I'm banking on is that if my organs have survived up to that point, they must be frickin strong. So maybe they'll take those and put them into someone else who has different strong organs, and then that person will donate my organs and their organs to someone else and so on and so on. Eventually, there will be someone out there who will need to overhaul their entire system and that person will get all of the best organs from up the line and therefore become.... SUPERHUMAN

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I don't know about you guys but as I get older (not that I consider myself old) i can't help but realize just how fast time seems to be passing by.
I checked my phone this morning and saw that my sister had sent me a message it was a screen shot of her Facebook memories from two years ago.. two years ago her and i standing with each other at the ****** parade. Standing there blind not knowing if I would ever be able to see again. I was suppose to ride in the parade and being on dialysis while waiting on a kidney and pancreas transplant the parade crew made arrangements for me to have a police escort in case I got the call while riding . Except I didn't get to ride... The day before the parade I went to the den to load and prepare my spot. On my way home I noticed my vision getting blurry and after about 10 mins complete darkness. it was the most terrifying and gut wrenching feeling losing my vision. On April 21 the day before my birthday I had surgery with about a 40/60 chance I might see again. I was losing hope but never showed it. My body was weak from dialysis and now I was blind and didn't know how much more I could take. On April 25 my ****** **** came over to help set me up for dialysis, he left after getting me in bed and I cried my eyes out until I couldn't cry anymore. I finally broke down. Before falling asleep as I was praying I simple said "God, I can't do this anymore, I'm ready"..... I was awoken that night at about 3:30 a.m. with the phone call that they had a donor for my transplant. Just 2 years ago.. Wow.

I look back ( with 20/30 vision lol) on all that I've been through and I hold my little girl and tears fill my eyes at the thought of just how truly blessed I am to be where I am today. How much of a miracle it is that what seemed like the end, was only the beginning to much much greater things to come and yet to come. If you are reading this please never give up even when everything seems hopeless.

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