by Margaret Petrosky (Kidney Recipient)
“You look terrific…so much color…so full of life!” These were my husband’s, Phil, first words to me as I awoke from my kidney transplant surgery. Some 13 hours earlier, while we waited for our dinner to be served at Max and Erma’s, my cell phone rang. I answered and it was “The Call.” I told Phil it is OSU Transplant and we have to be there in an hour. We jumped, we rushed, our sweet little waitress bagged the dinner to go that we would never eat, we sto
pped quickly at home for my prepacked hospital bag, and we made it to the hospital within that hour.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – December 04, 2009
For more than 120 years, the Tournament of Roses Parade has been an American tradition. Lifeline of Ohio, the organ and tissue recovery agency serving central and southeastern Ohio, joins the national campaign to celebrate and honor the lifesaving gifts of organ and tissue donation as part of the seventh annual Donate Life 2010 Rose Parade Float, New Life Rises. The float will be in the 121st annual Tournament of Roses Parade on Friday, January 1, 2010 at 11 a.m. EST in Pasadena, CA.
New Life Rises will include a phoenix–the mythical symbol of life coming out of death–rising into the sky representing those who give life in their death and the people whose lives are renewed by their gifts. Adorning the bird’s tail feathers are 76 floragraphs–portraits created with organic material–of deceased donors who gave life to those in need. In addition, donors from across the country are memorialized in a garden of dedicated roses, with each rose vial carrying a personal message of love, hope and remembrance. Read More »
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