Pretty crazy...

Mark's surgery date is the same date as his dad's birthday. I am sure his dad will be looking over him that day.

Amazing Story

A gift that can never be forgotten.

http://www.cbssports.com/video/player/play/nfl/hBlG9er_QVcnTFJ3uOa7AFsOTcHnDdUq

Wonderful article

One more night until Mark makes his way back to Phoenix! Way too excited!

On to a great article I read in today's Arizona Central newspaper. The article spoke about offering a free funeral to those people who donate kidneys, livers, and other organs in London. Could you imagine?! The only downfall is they would not offer the same to a living donor---but either way it is an amazing way to help people make the choice to donate his/her organs.

Here in the US, the only free funeral one could get is if he/she donated his/hers body to science. This sounds like an amazing way to help the science world--and will be my choice when the day comes for me. What better way to give that gift to possible help others. Before all that though, I will donate any and all of my organs to those out there waiting for that phone call to rush to the hospital and recieve a new heart or liver or kidney!

Got to Have Hope...

86 days....

37 more times Mark has to go to dialysis! Amazing!  I spoke with the woman at work who has also had a kidney transplant (2 actually), and she was super excited to hear the news. She also said that Mark will feel amazing after the surgery and will probably wonder how he functioned pre-transplant.