@scottij
I just began posting on Connect this past July and I recently came across one of your posts from November of 2020 on the thread titled "Transplant anti-rejection medications. What's your advice?" I wanted to contact you so I thought I'd check this site that was new to me to see if you had posted your story here. And lo and behold...here you are!
First of all, congratulations on your life-saving heart transplant, and I pray that you are continuing to do well. I enjoyed reading your post and I love the poem you shared at the beginning as well as your new rule to live by at the end: Face reality as it is and not as you want it to be. The poem and your rule will now become words for me to remember and live by, as well,
I plan to go through this thread to read all of the interesting stories shared by transplant recipients. We all have different stories and have come to the same destination of transplant via different roads.
The reason I wanted to contact you is that in your post from the thread "Transplant anti-rejection medications. What's your advice?" you mentioned that you had named your new heart "Dave." I thought I was the only person who named their new transplanted organ. I had a kidney transplant 11 months ago and named my adopted kidney "Maisha" which means life. Maisha is treating me well, and I pray that Dave is treating you well. I call Maisha my adopted kidney because, unfortunately, her original host passed away and Maisha no longer had a viable home. So, I was offered, and I gladly adopted her. And I'm trying my best to be a good Mom to her. 😊
Scott, best wishes to you.