HI JIM: I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU WHAT A FANTASTIC, HEARTWARMING, MEANINGFUL, POWERFUL AND EMOTIONAL THING YOU’VE ACCOMPLISHED HERE.  THIS MORNING THE LETTER FROM A NURSE BACK TO US RECIPIENTS WAS REMARKABLE!  THE HEART IS GORGEOUS AND I PERCIEVED IT AS THE PETALS AS US RECIPIENTS THAT THE Tx NURSES HAVE TAKEN CARE OF AND THEY ARE NOW WELL ENOUGH TO FLY AWAY WIITH MORE HEALTH THAN THEY DID FLYING IN TO JOIN THE OTHER PEDALS WITHIN THE HEART.  EACH DAY WE WERE TAKEN CARE OF, WE SLOWLY MOVED CLOSER TO THE EDGE OF THE HEART UNTIL OUR GENTEL PEDALS WERE WELL ENOUGH TO LET THE NURSES SETTING US OFF TO FLY BETTER THAN WE DID LAND COMING IN.  THIS IS WHAT THIS BEAUTIFUL HEART MEANS TO ME.

      I HAVE HAD BEAUTIFUL TEARS FOR THE LETTERS I’VE READ THUS FAR AND THEN ONE COMES BACK FOR US ALL.  I AM SO THANKFUL FOR BEING A PART OF THIS  HUGE PROJECT.  I HONOR, RESPECT AND COMMEND YOU AND THOSE WHO HELPED YOU WITH THIS MAGNIFICENT PROJECT TO ALLOW US TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK MORE THAN JUST A SIMPLE THANK YOU.  SOMETIMES WORDS JUST DON’T SEEM ENOUGH TO THANK TRUE CARE GIVERS.

     OH, HOW WOULD I HAVE LOVED TO BE ONE OF THE RECIEPIENTS TO HAND OUT THE BOOKS AND LETTERS?  SORT OF IRRONIC, I TOO AM A NURSE- DUAL LICENSED LVN AND RN AS WELL AS A 2 TIME KIDNEY Tx RECIPIENT.  SO I KNOW, I HONESTLY KNOW AND UNDERSTAND BOTH SIDES.

     I GUESS I’VE SAID ENOUGH AND YOU KNOW MY FEELINGS.  I PRINTED OUT THE LETTER AND WILL KEEP IT IN MY Tx SCRAPBOOK.

  YOURS ALWAYS JIM IN THE GIFT OF LIFE, LIVING, HEALTH AND LOVE,
KAREN

Tx 1972 AND 2007

*ORGANS AREN’T NEEDED IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE, LEAVE THEM ON EARTH FOR OTHERS TO LIVE AND LOVE*

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