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Happy "Transplantiversary"!

Posted by Rosemary, Volunteer Mentor @rosemarya, Apr 30, 2017

We all celebrate milestones in our lives with our lived ones and friends - Birthdays, Anniversaries, Graduations.....with a wide range of special traditions.
After you have received your transplant, your Gift of Life, and you reach the yearly milestones for that miraculous event, have you thought about celebrating your Transplantiversary?
Share your ideas for how you celebrate your transplantiversary.

Interested in more discussions like this? Go to the Transplants Support Group.

jolinda | @jolinda | Apr 24, 2020
In reply to @rosemarya "On this past Wednesday, April 22, I celebrated my 11th transplant anniversary. This year, it was..." + (show)
@rosemarya

On this past Wednesday, April 22, I celebrated my 11th transplant anniversary. This year, it was a quiet day, and a reflective day. April 22 will always be a day of blessings for me.

I kept a journal, and here part of what I wrote on May 2, 2009:
"It is day 10 post transplant. I have been busy and had no time or energy to do any journaling. I will try to summarize and recall some memories that began with the phone call from my transplant surgeon on the morning of April 22, 2009 at 6:42 AM... I feel elated, thankful, relieved, and in awe of what just occurred. I feel so loved and so blessed to have had a successful surgery; to begin an "uneventful" recovery; to have a wonderful family who is here with me; to have prayers and support of family, friends, and friends of friends. It seems like everyone knows someone who wants to pray for me. They make it sound like I am doing something extra courageous. I am only doing what I 'have' to do. I expect that anyone in my situation would do the same thing. My medical team has provided the hands for this miraculous event. The credit belongs to my organ donor."

When is your tranaplant anniversary? What do you remember? How do you honor the day and your donor?

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Happy transplantaversary! Such an amazing journey you have been on, God Bless you and God Bless your donor!

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Dana, Volunteer Mentor | @danab | Apr 24, 2020

@rosemarya congratulations on your Anniversary with many more to come. It's been an honor to know you and thank you for your help here on Connect
Have a Blessed Day
Dana

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gaylea1 | @gaylea1 | Apr 24, 2020
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@rosemarya congratulations on your Anniversary with many more to come. It's been an honor to know you and thank you for your help here on Connect
Have a Blessed Day
Dana

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@rosemarya Congratulations on your anniversary! Thank you for all your support and wisdom over the years ❤🇨🇦

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John, Volunteer Mentor | @johnbishop | Nov 24, 2021

I just saw this on my Facebook post from Mayo Clinic - such a great story!

Happy Transplantversary: Celebrating 25 years with a new heart, back where it all happened
-- https://intheloop.mayoclinic.org/2021/11/18/happy-transplantversary-celebrating-25-years-with-a-new-heart-back-where-it-all-happened/

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Dana, Volunteer Mentor | @danab | Nov 24, 2021
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@johnbishop

I just saw this on my Facebook post from Mayo Clinic - such a great story!

Happy Transplantversary: Celebrating 25 years with a new heart, back where it all happened
-- https://intheloop.mayoclinic.org/2021/11/18/happy-transplantversary-celebrating-25-years-with-a-new-heart-back-where-it-all-happened/

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Awesome 25 Years that's got to be a record thanks for Sharing. I myself being just 4 years in almost really appreciates hearing this kind of word. At the age myself of 62 think my current one should last me well into my 80s which is pretty good since I was facing death in my 50s.

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athenalee | @athenalee | Nov 24, 2021
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@johnbishop

I just saw this on my Facebook post from Mayo Clinic - such a great story!

Happy Transplantversary: Celebrating 25 years with a new heart, back where it all happened
-- https://intheloop.mayoclinic.org/2021/11/18/happy-transplantversary-celebrating-25-years-with-a-new-heart-back-where-it-all-happened/

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Amazing and inspiring story! Thanks so much for sharing John. It would be so awesome to live another 25 years with my new liver!

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athenalee | @athenalee | Nov 24, 2021
In reply to @danab "Awesome 25 Years that's got to be a record thanks for Sharing. I myself being just..." + (show)
@danab

Awesome 25 Years that's got to be a record thanks for Sharing. I myself being just 4 years in almost really appreciates hearing this kind of word. At the age myself of 62 think my current one should last me well into my 80s which is pretty good since I was facing death in my 50s.

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Agreed Dana! I am 62 as well, and I hadn’t even imagined I could live another 25 years with my new liver!

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Rosemary, Volunteer Mentor | @rosemarya | Nov 25, 2021

The Thanksgiving Day sun is setting. It is probably not your Transplant Anniversary on this day, but I know that Thanksgiving Day is a perfect day for transplant recipients to remember and reflect on the Gift of Life. Some of us are recently transplanted, and some of us are further along.

I want to tag: @azdan99 @nanmargaret @hello1234, @leahdrose @estrada53, @joko @glinda @brenwhite - I feel inspired and I feel hopeful that maybe(?) I can be a feature someday! How about you ? How do you feel when you read this amazing story?

Happy Transplantversary: Celebrating 25 years with a new heart, back where it all happened
— https://intheloop.mayoclinic.org/2021/11/18/happy-transplantversary-celebrating-25-years-with-a-new-heart-back-where-it-all-happened/

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Rosemary, Volunteer Mentor | @rosemarya | Nov 25, 2021
In reply to @athenalee "Agreed Dana! I am 62 as well, and I hadn’t even imagined I could live another..." + (show)
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Agreed Dana! I am 62 as well, and I hadn’t even imagined I could live another 25 years with my new liver!

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@athenalee, When I had my 10th anniversary checkup at Mayo, I asked my transplant doctor what I needed to do to live another 10 years. His reply was, "Take your medications. Get your routine labs. No alcohol." I can do that ❤

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joko | @joko | Nov 26, 2021

Thanks for sharing this truly inspiring story @rosemarya . I give thanks for doctors like Thomas Habermann (one of the young residents called him "Le Grand Fromage." He diagnosed my PTSD after months of dead-ends and false starts. We used rituxamab too. That was in 2015.

I'd like to hear other people's experiences. It educates us and connects us to the wisdom that we are seeking. Rosemary, you are already the protagonist in your own profile story. You just have to write it and get it published.

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