Barry, I know it can't be easy lying there waiting for someone else to finish using their liver. There you are, sick, tired, and missing your own normal life activities so much, and wondering if this will work out for you at all-- thinking at the same time how awful that you will benefit from someone else's lost battle.

But you know, whoever it is that passes it down to you, they will have wanted you to have it. I don't know you. But I suspect, from all the things people have said to you and about you, that if you could turn around and give that person your heart (or bert's testicle apparently), you probably would. What I am thinking is that there is someone in this world as generous, and that he or she decided long ago to give every last thing to LIFE that they could.

So you sit tight and get ready to TAKE it and do that person, and their family, proud.

~Susan