Hey!
Been a while since I have been on here. A friend of a friend has started a Prayer Project. I would like to do the same thing.
This is what it is about. Everyone is either going through a tough time now, or will at some point in your life. There are many people out there who have big hearts and would like to pray for you if only you ask. Sometimes what is going on in a person's life is between God and that person. That is good too. Don't need all the details of life.
Join in on the Prayer Project: ask for prayers, pray for others, or do both!
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Update
Been a while since I posted on here. Thought I would let you all know that the friend who received my kidney is doing very well. She is planning to go back to work next week. She is doing great. I have had some health issues come up since the kidney donation. The team in Denver feels that it isn't related to the donation surgery. I am having more tests done to diagnose what the problem is. Thank you all for your prayers, kind words and thoughtfulness through the entire process! GIGATTATTGIG!!
Saturday, May 14, 2011
The Big Day Is Almost Here!
Hi All,
Thought I would put together a group email to give family and friends information about my surgery. As you know, I am donating my left kidney to a friend. Her name is Dianna Brown. The surgery is scheduled for Monday, May 16, at 8:30am. We will be at the hospital at 5:30am. Dean and I will be spending Sunday night in Denver at a hotel, Boston Commons. Dean's parents are coming to help take care of Aiden while I am in the hospital. Dean will have both his cell phone and my cell phone on him Monday. His cell number is 719-466-1395 and my cell number 719-439-7247. The home number is 719-203-4827. The surgery should last between 3-4 hours. I am also including a link to the hospital -- Porter-Adventist Hospital 2525 South Downing Street, Denver, CO 80210 phone 303-778-1955 (main line to the hospital), a link to the surgeon Dr. Warren Kortz, and a link to the Da Vinci tool used for surgery. After recovery I will be moved to a private room on three north. I should be coming home Tuesday or Wednesday... depending on how fast I recuperate.
Hospital Link
http://www.porterhospital.org/body.cfm?id=252
Dr. Warren Kortz
http://www.surgone.com/DrWarrenKortz.html
DaVinci Robotic Surgery
http://www.davincisurgery.com/davinci-surgery/
Thank you all for your prayers, thoughts and concern. Dean will keep you updated on Monday as he knows information. If I have your number, it is on my phone. If your number has changed recently, please let us know. Not sure if there is wifi in the hospital. Dean is also planning on bringing his little laptop. His email is dwarrend33@hotmail.com
Love You All!
Thought I would put together a group email to give family and friends information about my surgery. As you know, I am donating my left kidney to a friend. Her name is Dianna Brown. The surgery is scheduled for Monday, May 16, at 8:30am. We will be at the hospital at 5:30am. Dean and I will be spending Sunday night in Denver at a hotel, Boston Commons. Dean's parents are coming to help take care of Aiden while I am in the hospital. Dean will have both his cell phone and my cell phone on him Monday. His cell number is 719-466-1395 and my cell number 719-439-7247. The home number is 719-203-4827. The surgery should last between 3-4 hours. I am also including a link to the hospital -- Porter-Adventist Hospital 2525 South Downing Street, Denver, CO 80210 phone 303-778-1955 (main line to the hospital), a link to the surgeon Dr. Warren Kortz, and a link to the Da Vinci tool used for surgery. After recovery I will be moved to a private room on three north. I should be coming home Tuesday or Wednesday... depending on how fast I recuperate.
Hospital Link
http://www.porterhospital.org/body.cfm?id=252
Dr. Warren Kortz
http://www.surgone.com/DrWarrenKortz.html
DaVinci Robotic Surgery
http://www.davincisurgery.com/davinci-surgery/
Thank you all for your prayers, thoughts and concern. Dean will keep you updated on Monday as he knows information. If I have your number, it is on my phone. If your number has changed recently, please let us know. Not sure if there is wifi in the hospital. Dean is also planning on bringing his little laptop. His email is dwarrend33@hotmail.com
Love You All!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Here We Go
I received an email from the donor coordinator a couple of days ago. The kidney recipient will see the doctors on Monday (March 14)to determine if she is ok for surgery in the near future. She looks fine, feels fine. Just a matter of getting the go ahead from the doctors. I appreciate all the prayers you have sent through the last several months. Thank you in advance for continued prayers as we go the "final stretch". I will know more in the next couple of weeks.
Love in Christ,
Maggie
Love in Christ,
Maggie
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Love You Mom!
Well today – January 11th, is the 24 year anniversary of my mother’s death. It’s something that I guess I will never fully get over. My mother was one of the nicest people you could have met. She was kind to everyone.
My mother died at the age of 49 – due to breast cancer that metastasized to her brain. The fought a hard battle and went to Wilford Hall several times for radiation treatments. Had chemotherapy treatments and other treatments at the local hospital too.
She passed away on a Sunday. I still remember that day vividly. My dad and I went to Sunday School and then skipped church to go to the hospital to see mom and help her eat lunch. She needed help to eat in the final weeks of her life. After we helped her eat, we went to Hardee's and the plan was to stop by the hospital again before going to Lawton to go shopping for some shoes for me. We went back to the hospital to find out that she had passed on while we were away. The whole experience of seeing my dad break down crying and seeing her in the hospital bed like she was sleeping but knowing she was gone is something I will never forget.
I miss being able to talk to her and her support. Even today it is very hard. My mother never judged people and was nice to everyone. She was truly a great person and was taken away way too soon.
I love you mom!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
A Phone Call Changes Everything
Some of my posts have been on the humorous side. Today's post is a more serious topic. It all started back in the spring of 2010. I am at church and looking at the prayer list requests. I see a woman's name in need of a kidney transplant. I pray and talk with God about her. I don't know her, but I keep her in the back of my mind. A few weeks go by and there is news that her sister will be a donor. The family is very excited and the surgery date is set for the summer. The day before the surgery, the medical team learns that her sister can't donate her kidney. She has a rare problem with her kidney. She is off the eligible donor list. The family is heartbroken.
I need to share that I am essentially an orphan. My mother passed away from cancer. She was 49 years old. I was thirteen at the time. My father passed away when he was 70. I was 27 years old at the time. I have a son who will be three years old in February. I feel that if there is something I can do to help another family have the opportunity of more years together, then I will do my best to do that. I have done a lot of research into living kidney donors. They live regular lives after donating and the gift of life is comparable to giving birth.
A couple more weeks go by and the family includes more information on their daughter needing a kidney transplant. They include her blood type (A Positive) in the information. That Sunday I'm looking at the bulletin and reading through it and stop at the words "A Positive". That's my blood type. It feels like flashing lights to me. I can feel an urgency to look into this. That afternoon I do some searching on the Internet. I wait a week and talk with my husband about it. I decide to call the church to get more information, hoping they can point me in the right direction. The person on the line gives my contact information to the woman in need of the kidney transplant. She later calls me and gives me the information of a hospital in Denver, Colorado. I wait another day and call the number of the hospital in Denver, Colorado. They take some basic information from me and send me paperwork to fill out.
When I receive the paperwork I see there is a lot of tests that need to be done. The recipient's insurance pays for that. Trying to talk to Tricare (my insurance company) about that was not fun at all. I decide to go to the hospital in Denver to do the testing. On that first day they did a cross-match and before I went home that day, they told me that the cross-match is good.
A few months go by and there are more tests more trips to Denver and more pokes... Then just after new year's on January 3, 2011, I get the call that I have been approved to be an organ donor. It is unbelievable.
Not sure on when it will take place, but will keep posting on here as I know more information.
I need to share that I am essentially an orphan. My mother passed away from cancer. She was 49 years old. I was thirteen at the time. My father passed away when he was 70. I was 27 years old at the time. I have a son who will be three years old in February. I feel that if there is something I can do to help another family have the opportunity of more years together, then I will do my best to do that. I have done a lot of research into living kidney donors. They live regular lives after donating and the gift of life is comparable to giving birth.
A couple more weeks go by and the family includes more information on their daughter needing a kidney transplant. They include her blood type (A Positive) in the information. That Sunday I'm looking at the bulletin and reading through it and stop at the words "A Positive". That's my blood type. It feels like flashing lights to me. I can feel an urgency to look into this. That afternoon I do some searching on the Internet. I wait a week and talk with my husband about it. I decide to call the church to get more information, hoping they can point me in the right direction. The person on the line gives my contact information to the woman in need of the kidney transplant. She later calls me and gives me the information of a hospital in Denver, Colorado. I wait another day and call the number of the hospital in Denver, Colorado. They take some basic information from me and send me paperwork to fill out.
When I receive the paperwork I see there is a lot of tests that need to be done. The recipient's insurance pays for that. Trying to talk to Tricare (my insurance company) about that was not fun at all. I decide to go to the hospital in Denver to do the testing. On that first day they did a cross-match and before I went home that day, they told me that the cross-match is good.
A few months go by and there are more tests more trips to Denver and more pokes... Then just after new year's on January 3, 2011, I get the call that I have been approved to be an organ donor. It is unbelievable.
Not sure on when it will take place, but will keep posting on here as I know more information.
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