Feb 15
I met the man in whose chest my daughter’s heart is beating. Jerry and his wife Laurie drove to Wickenburg to meet the mother of the organ donor who saved his life. We spent nearly five hours talking, crying, laughing and creating the beginnings of a strange and wonderful “family” connection, which I expect will …
Feb 08
Didie received my daughter’s lungs on May 23, 2008. This is a brief version of what her daughter and caregiver Sherrie wrote a short week after surgery. Visit Team Didie for the whole story. In death, there is new life… I just cannot believe it’s been one week since we got “The Call.” for the …
Feb 01
Introducing Sherri, the loving daughter and caregiver of Didie, who now breathes with my daughter Ava’s lungs. Visit Team Didie for the whole story. This is my mom, Didie. She has Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, a rare lung disease that requires her to have a double lung transplant. She has never smoked or taken diet pills, which …
Jan 19
A design as unique as my daughter. She designed the tattoo I didn’t want her to get. It now adorns both my back and the headstone at her grave. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/01/18/requiem-revisited/
