March 22, 2023: Transplant story

Thursday, March 23, 2023 · by kathy howe

Our friend Bryan was visiting the Bay Area last week — he’s an 18 year survivor of a kidney transplant ❤️. His generous donor was his cousin. He told us a really interesting story: he’s met many transplant recipients and one of them was a woman who’d had a heart transplant. She told him how she’d never liked beer and after her heart transplant, she started drinking a couple of Buds per week.  A number of years after that, she had the opportunity to meet her donor’s family and lo and behold he had been a Bud drinker!  

So John’s joke was “Now Sam will be a big vegetable eater.”  😂

♥ 33 hearts

5 comments

David Hornik · Thursday, March 23, 2023
:)
John Lilly · Thursday, March 23, 2023
Might take more than a transplant for this to happen!
Erin Lavik · Thursday, March 23, 2023
It's neat to think a part of you is there to help him. You're an amazing mom
Anabel Pearson · Thursday, March 23, 2023
cute story! thanks for making me giggle! sam can start with carrot cake !
Lezley Yokubaitis · Thursday, March 23, 2023
Funny!! So very thankful that his life giver can also be his life saver... Prayers going up often for ALL of you as you prepare, both physically and mentally, for the next road to come on Sam's journey...