Today marks five years since my husband had his life saving liver transplant…five years….can’t believe how quickly they have flown. Especially as the years leading up to that day went so slowly…the fourteen months of being on the waiting list seemed to stretch for a life time. This day five years ago started like many […]
Yesterday was my husband’s 45th birthday…birthdays are always a good reason to celebrate but for us, each one is now a wonderful gift. Because when he turned 40, life was looking rather bleak…he was so sick with end stage liver disease and every day was a struggle. He was bright yellow…a walking skeleton…and our days […]
Today is DonateLife Thank You Day (20th November 2016). This is a day to say thank you to all the donors and their loved ones for giving the gift of life…and it is a day that is very important to us. Because organ donation saved my husband’s life…it is as simple as that… If a […]
One of the unexpected benefits of going on this roller coaster transplant journey has been the wonderful opportunities that have been presented to us. Neither of us were ever fond of public speaking, but as time has passed, we now love telling our story and sharing just how life changing organ donation can be. This […]
For those who follow Zinc Moon on social media, you will know that we had an awesome day yesterday. And it all happened because my husband has had a liver transplant! DonateLife Week 2016 is coming up….July 31st till August 7th…so we are helping to spread the word about just how important and just how […]
Today, we woke up extra early and headed out in the dark along a familiar route to hospital. The journey was for nothing major…just a regular checkup appointment at the Liver Transplant Unit for my husband. However, this day has very special meaning…four years ago we also got up early and made the journey to […]
Today marks another milestone…it’s my husband’s birthday. It is significant because it is another year that he wouldn’t have seen if he hadn’t had a much needed liver transplant. He barely made it to his 40th birthday….he felt and looked terrible. Very jaundiced and so tired all the time, his body was slowly giving in […]
A “memory” from about four years ago popped up on my Facebook feed recently…I had written how I was so hoping my husband would get a new liver for his birthday, which is in a few days. Although my words didn’t portray it, I remember how worried I was back then…and scared…frustrated. He had been […]