Jeffrey over at Transplant Alliance called the online community’s attention to a beautiful Web site called ellasliver.com. Ella Watson is a 25-year-old artist who somehow, remarkably, managed to survive biliary artesia as an infant and live relatively complication-free until she was 24. She now needs a liver transplant, and her family and friends are considering [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Inspiration’
How to give without spending – 365 days a year!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Inspiration, Living organ donation on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Living organ donors are some of the most naturally and intuitively generous people I know. Many of us simply don’t give a second thought to the idea of giving. The desire just comes to us like the impulse to breathe, or drink water when we are thirsty.
I found a very fun blog this weekend that [...]
Sharing a Friday smile, through Matt and his worldwide dance
Posted in Living organ donation, Organ donation, Organ transplants, tagged Inspiration, Just for fun on February 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m meditating today on two women I know who are having difficult times, one because her Mom is struggling with severe kidney problems in the wake of a liver transplant two weeks ago, and the other because, while she heals from her donation of her liver to her husband, he lies in the hospital, urgently awaiting another [...]
Two beautiful poems on surrender to “what is”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Inspiration on December 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This week, a delightful yoga teacher in Vancouver, WA, introduced her class to a Robert Bly poem that spoke to her deeply about the theme of “surrender to what is.” Not “surrender” in a painful, woeful sense of giving up, but “surrender” in a sense of relinquishing control over those things which we cannot possibly [...]
A quote for today
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Inspiration, Quotes on November 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet with a gift in it.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Namaste, Yu u nobuntu, and other praise for the humanity of living donors
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Altruistic donation, Inspiration, Kidney donor chains, Paired donation, Religion and organ transplants, Transplant innovations on November 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m in a somewhat fragile state, wearing my heart on my sleeve and getting emotional when I see happy transplant stories in the news these days. (My brother Joe, the recipient of my liver in 2006, has been hospitalized three times in the past six weeks, owing to an unrelenting stricture in his duct at the [...]
