Virtual Spaghetti Dinner

We are having a "Virtual Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser in Celebration of Marty's first year anniversary. We figured this would be a fun way to include all of our family and friends who do not live in Arizona, so you don't need to make the drive out here in the heat. Keep in mind, that this is not real food, so it is calorie free, and not messy at all(no dripping sauce on your clothes). We are associated with the National Transplant Assistance Fund,a non profit fundraising group for transplanted people. If you click on the picture of the flyer, you will be able to see all of the information about the fundraiser. We have been very blessed this past year with much support either financially, words of encouragement, prayer, phone calls, and people we have met through the transplant process. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We love you all. If you feel comfortable, you are more than welcome to share this fundraising information with your email contacts. Thank you, and love you all, Monica

Almost One Year

Well, on July 26, 2009 it will be my one year anniversary with my new lungs. It is a time of celebration and thankfulness for my family and me. So much has happened this past year. We have met many good people either in person or through the internet(because of their medical situations and/or transplants) It is also a time of reflection for me, sometimes just thinking about the process of getting my lungs, someone having to die, and their family to experience such a loss is overwhelming. They made a very unselfish decision. I do not go a day without thinking about them and praying for them. I guess it is not uncommon for people who have received an organ transplant to go through a period of feeling guilty; guilty that they are alive because someone died. It is something that I think about often. The guilt is not quite as strong as I began to realize that the person who died, made the selfless decision to be an organ doner because they wanted to give someone else a second chance at living. Thank you! Another thing that Monica and I have been thinking about is that Jonathan (his parents too) are moving to Kentucky on July 16th. It will be very hard to not have him around us, but we both understand their reasons. I guess we will just have to take extra long weekends and fly into Knoxville Tn. every so often to see them (Him) :) Thank you Jesus for my life and for another chance at it.