The Big News!

June 6, 2003. Where my room was I could hear the chopper come and go all day and night. My mom had just barely drove from work in Las Vegas, NV. I had just heard the Helicopter leave, and jokingly I told my Mom and Grandma that they were going to get my new Heart. Not two minutes later the Nurse called my mom out into the hall to talk to her, she came back in with tears in her eyes, I knew they had really found me a Heart. So of course I am crying in excitement with my Mom and Grandma. In this picture my Mom is spreading the word, I am very excited but also nervous.

In this picture the Nurse is prepping me for Surgery. Meanwhile, the Chopper was on it's way back with my new Heart!

This Is One of the Very many Nurses That I Had.Here I Am With Anca And This is Just when I am waiting in the Hospital For a Heart..I Waited 3 Years total But Even Though I Dont Look That Bad My Heart Had Enlarged 4 Times its Origanal Size Plus I Always Had a Small Leak that Was Bleeding Really Bad! So In Order For them To Move My Status Up To (A) I Had to Be Admitted and its a Good thing I Was So They Could Find Out How Much Worse I Had Gotten!! I Could Barely Tie My Shoes Without Turning Blue and Being out of Breath!

"First Person Consent"

In the March 2009 edition of the Virtual Mentor The American Medical Association Journal of Ethics has published a paper in support of "First Person Consent," a concept that could increase the number of organs available for Transplantation. Now effective in 42 states, "First Person Consent" laws dictates that a documented donation decision like a donor card, drivers license etc, is legally binding and does not require the consent of any other person upon the death of the donor. That means if a person has documented their decision to be a donor, families have no legal right to overrule it. You can read the report in it entirety at http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/