Superman Saves 5 Lives!!

So here's what happened in our week.
TL

I received my letter from the LifeCenter Northwest Organ Donation Network on Friday.

I've been expecting this letter since we left the hospital and getting more anxious about it everyday. It was the letter to tell me where all Michael's organs went and about the person who received them.

I was terrified that I was going to receive a letter that said, "I'm sorry, but we were unable..." (We already thought we had known the man that was to receive one kidney and pancreas and then were told that he had not received his transplant because he was too ill.)

I'm writing this to share with everyone who has been so supportive through everything that has happened, so they may rejoice with us in the lives Michael made the choice to save.

In the letter we learned that:

His right kidney went to a 16yr old girl in Washington, who had been diagnosed with kidney disease at age 11 and had been on dialysis.

His left kidney along with his pancreas went to a 43yr old man, with diabetes since age 4, from Washington. It quoted him as grateful for renewed health and "freedom from the insulin shots I have had all my life."

His liver went to a 55yr old man from Washington.

His heart was given to a 60yr old man from California.

And his LUNGS (yes they got to go too & we'd thought they were too traumatized to be donated) went to a 57yr old single mom in Washington!!

HE SAVED 5 LIVES!!!!

It is such a relief to know that all the transplants went so well and each recipient is recovering well! I now have a direction for my prayers!! Over the next two weeks, I will write letters to the recipients to tell them about Michael and his exceptional love of life.

I don't know if I will ever hear back from them (the letters go through the donation network) but that is not what matters. Everyone will handle this in different ways. What matters to me is the ability to share his story and then to continue to pray for them and their ongoing health.

Once again thanks to all for the love and support given over the last 5 weeks. Please continue to keep us in prayer for our healing, but also add these 5 people, blessed with Michaels' gift of life!

God Bless! Trish (TL)