Tonight I am troubled.
I have an aunt who is waiting in a Seattle hospital for a kidney/liver transplant. She is receiving dialysis on both right now (only the 3rd in the world to receive this liver dialysis) and it is essentially keeping her alive until "the call" comes in.
The call.
It seems sick for me to wish that someone would die so that my aunt can live. It feels wrong. But we live in a country where something like 5 young people die per day, and yet no call has come in yet. Not one of those people dying in accidents are organ donors! It's sickening....people are being buried or cremated with parts that they don't even need anymore.
I cannot even fathom what my uncle is going through right now. Watching his wife struggle every day. Knowing that the fate of the woman he loves more than life itself is in the hands of people he doesn't know. When I am pregnant, the last month of pregnancy nearly drives me batty. I literally cannot handle it. I want the baby out. I pray harder than I ever do, asking God to get that baby out, and they STILL don't come out until they are medically evicted!
I am not patient.
And my aunt and uncle are being forced to wait. Every day, they wait. They wait for someone to call them and tell them that she will live. Imagine that being you. You significant other is lying in a hospital bed, being kept alive by machines and sheer will, and you are being told over and over and over again...that it's not time to save their life that day. How incredibly crushing. I literally do not know how they are getting through it, but by the grace of God.
I implore you...I beg of you...become an organ donor. Now. Right now. Register. If you don't register, then tell someone who loves you that you want your body used to save the life of someone else. Use your death to save someone else's life. Wouldn't your time here on earth be worth so much more if your last gift to give here on earth was the gift of LIFE for someone else??
Every single night, before I fall asleep, these are the last words I say (and I am sure that nearly everyone else in my family says the exact same thing as they go to sleep) "God,
please, make the call come in. Save my Aunt Becky."
Please help save someone's life and become an organ donor today.
Brooke Moss.
