The Gift of Life and Sight

It was only just this August when I heard a mesagge left on my phone by my brother in-law to call home. Tim is not a guy who breaks easy and after the loss of my folks and 3 grandparents and my dog of 14 yrs, of course I expect the worse but what I got was shocking. My beautiful niece and the first grandchild was gone. 33 years old and new baby and husband and she lay down to sleep and never woke.

I had to hear it more then once and I just remember saying it can't be real and then asking where my sister was and to tell her I would be there as fast as I could.

When I hung up the phone I stood in shock.. really could this be real. Then all the questions and tears and prayers and in need of a friend and finding no one was there for me.

Its now November and today my nephew told me the results had come back. Teresa had lost her life to some kind of heart failure. While I shared in my nephew and his wifes pain and anger of feeling like we should have know or could we have saved her or why was it not caught by her doctors during her pregency with Baby James?? The whys keep coming and the pain is still fresh. I dare not speak to my sister as to not make her hurt more. I can not and will never know her pain. I can only know mine as an aunt.

While we sit with our pain we are reminded there is still a child one year old baby James without his very loving doting mother whom always put others before herself. She loved children and worked at daycare centers and was an amazing Aunt herself.

Today we learned that Teresa's organs almost everyone of them were donated to save other lives. I have always been an organ donor and while we morn her loss we celebrate her gift's to the world. Because of her someone will see for the first time or hear for the first time and so much more. While my dear Teresa's heart may have failed her body it did not fail her soul. She will live on in her amazing son James and the lives she saved being a donor.

Become a donor and give someone else the gift of life.

My family has set up a fund in her son Jame's name to see to it he never forgets her and has the life and education she would have wanted for him. If you are interested in donating please contact me and I will give you the information.