ORGANS FOR TRANSPLANT
Posted: July 20, 2020
The Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE), based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a regional organ procurement organization (OPO). It is important to note that one organ, tissue and cornea donor can save or enhance the lives of up to 75 recipients. The following information is taken from CORE’s website, www.core.org.
Category: Blog
Tags: author, inspiration, loss of a child, memoir, organ transplant, parenting, Taming Josh’s Dragon
Ode to Josh
Posted: May 18, 2020
“The “Ode to Josh” blossomed into existence in March 1998. Apparently therapy of my own making, I have written poetry and letters to Josh and my favorite, the “Ode”, may be seen in a later chapter. One dark night I could hear rhyming verses in my head which literally woke me up out of a …
Category: Blog
Tags: author, grief, inspiration, loss of a child, lung transplant, Ode, organ transplant, poem
Gratitude
Posted: May 4, 2020
Well, as we’re contemplating perhaps winding this isolation down (I have to admit that I’m just a touch hesitant about this), I’m thinking of the beginning of golf season and getting back outside in the – at long last – warmer weather. It reminds me of when Josh and I were learning to golf, back …
Category: Blog
Tags: author, book, book lovers, child with life-threatening illness, child's chronic illness, gratitude, inspiration, loss of a child, medical, organ transplant, overwhelming grief, parenting, Pulmonology, surviving the death of a child, Taming Josh’s Dragon, transplant, writer lift, writing community

