Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Wordless Wednesday.....Pour Your Heart Out

This is going to be a mixture of Wordless Wednesday and Pour Your Heart Out hosted by Shell.  I guess it should be called wordful Wednesday then huh?  I never was any good at following the rules! 

To participate in Pour Your Heart out, just click the button.  For WW, you know what to do!




Some of you already know that I have entered a Fathers Day T-Shirt design contest.  I am totally going to pimp it out until June 9th.  Yes, it would be nice to win the iPad and other prizes and I wouldn't turn them down.   However, there is another reason that I designed a shirt focused on Organ Donation.  (Here is where the WW comes in)  The reason is the little girl in the pictures below.






My little Monkey wouldn't be here today without Organ Donation.  She received her Liver transplant on November 18, 2008.  Ever since then she has been a completely new baby and now toddler.  I can't imagine my life without her.  It is difficult to wrap my head around the fact that there was even a possibility that we could have lost her.  At the time I didn't realise how very sick she was.  She was happy.  She seemed to be relatively healthy, aside from her yellow skin.  She did sleep a lot, but we thought that we just had a good and very laid back baby.  Our world turned upside down when we were told that she did indeed have liver disease.  She went through a surgery to try to help her liver, but it failed almost immediately.  Then she had surgery to place a central IV line because I was tired of seeing my little baby be tortured just to start an IV.  It was one of the best decisions I ever made for her health during that time.  Then came her transplant.  6 1/2 hours of sitting and waiting for the phone to ring.  Waiting for the nurse from the OR to tell me how my baby was doing.  Waiting to see her afterwards.  While we did take pictures of her in PICU afterwards, I didn't want pictures taken of her with the ventilator in her mouth.  If someone did take them, I don't want to know.  I'm weird like that.  The other side of transplant is an amazing place.

I can't help but think that if I can get the word out there for people to go at least look at the shirt, if not vote for it, they would start to think about the message it presents.  If I can touch all of my followers on here, all of my followers on Twitter, and my friends on FB, then I have done my part for Organ Donation today.  No one should ever have to lose their loved ones because an organ wasn't available to them.  I have witnessed quite a few liver babies pass because of this.  It always breaks my heart.  We were extremely blessed with Monkey's wait.  She waited for 22 days on the transplant list.  A family who lost their child gave us the most precious and wonderful gift anyone could have ever given us.  Their child now lives on through Monkey.  So please, at least go look at the shirt.  Consider what it stands for.  Please take the time to think about making the decision to become a donor if you aren't already.  If you choose to vote for the shirt, I appreciate it.  If you choose to become an Organ Donor, you will forever be my Hero.  And please, spread the word.

18 comments:

  1. WOW! This is a wordless wordful Wednesday! Just beautiful. We are all donors...I am on my way to vote for your shirt.

    So happy your baby is doing well!

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  2. my son was also very sick when he was a baby. glad to hear that monkey's so much better now :)

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  3. I am so glad your little girl is with you today.I will check out the shirt and vote for you.

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  4. I'm so happy your little girl is doing well! Thank God for organ donors. Thank you so much for visiting my blog! I love visitors!

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  5. I have tears in my eyes, reading this!

    What a wonderful gift you were given. I voted for your shirt. :)

    Thanks for linking up!

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  6. You live with a miracle every day of her life. What a blessing. I'm an organ donor and I hope when I die some of them are still good enough to use.

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  7. The story of your daughter gave me the chills. I have the donor dot on my drivers license. :)

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  8. Wow! I'm so glad that she is with you today! That is just such a miracle and blessing as Cheryl said. I am an organ donor for that very reason, only my hubs aunt had lung disease, received a transplant, but then the other one was so severely diseased as well that she passed. I'm very glad to hear happy stories! Thanks for sharing!

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  9. I am so glad that you have her with you! What a testimony of God's grace and healing powers! My husband and I are both donors.

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  10. Such a great story. Shows how important organ donation really is. I'm always surprised when people don't want to be donors.

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  11. Thank you for sharing your story with us. I absolutely believe that everyone should be an organ donor if at all possible. Their selfless sacrifice can save the life of another.
    Thank you so much for stopping by and linking up. Have a great day.

    Kristi, Live and Love...Out Loud
    @TweetingMama

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  12. Wow what a touching post! I am going over now to vote for your shirt...good luck :)

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  13. I am voting! Keep pimping till the end, will spread the word.

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  14. I am so happy your little monkey is OK. Organ donation is, as you say, so important. It's hard to think about death, yours or others, but people need let people know their wishes so more people can be saved.

    Stopping by from SITS.

    LisaDay

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  15. So good to hear a story like this that ends with Monkey being well. We are donors in my family. I will go now to vote for your T shirt.

    Thank you so much for visiting Everyday Mommy!

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  16. It's a beautiful story and I'm glad to hear that it all ended well with Monkey.

    I just voted for you. :) Good luck!

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  17. Thank you for commenting and the vote! Good luck on the shirt contest, a very worthy cause indeed!

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  18. Look at the awareness you brought to Ember's story and organ donation with just this one blog! I'm so proud of you.

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