Thank you Rosemary, for your good wishes and for asking me to share my story. I followed your posts on connect and was happy to actually “meet” you via Zoom one week on a support group call. You were another source of hope and encouragement for me- as a post-transplant spokesperson, and I’m always encouraged by stories of other recipients who go on to live mostly normal, healthy lives with their replacement organs. I just only wish I had found the Connect site sooner. It was the very sudden & unexpected onset of septic shock that quickly put me into organ failure and suddenly I was fighting for my life. My doctors kept telling me this wasn’t supposed to happen from a gallbladder attack - but yet it did. And the problems just kept multiplying all to the doctors’ surprise. Sometimes I still find that I have PTSD from the whole experience. But that has thankfully started to wane somewhat. I have reached that place post-transplant - where it no longer defines me. It’s just something that happened, and let’s move on and seize each day - albeit with a much different perspective and appreciation for life. Every day is a gift.