Ok so here's the deal so far... The donor is a young person who is brain dead but not physically gone. The tx doctors now plan to take this person into the operating room tonight at 9 pm or after to recover the organs as they have doctors coming in from all over the place to each get specific choice organs (young organs are highly prized by transplant surgeons because, in their youth, these organs work so well and are so full of life that they transplant really well). This donors lungs, for example, are going to be taken by a doctor flying in from Pittsburgh for transplant in a patient out in that end of the state. And so now I am allowed to have a light dinner but nothing after 9 pm. The center promised to call me either way but cautioned that I may not hear from them before 7 am tomorrow.
So as far as it goes for me - I'm just in a holding pattern. A little jittery but holding. If you've got an extra prayer to send up this evening please offer it for the very caring, very loving, unselfish family who at this very hour are dealing with the loss of their loved one.
May God comfort them in their sorrow and graciously reward them for their generous gifts of life to so many people.
We'll be thinking and praying for all involved.
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