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Every day is a good day: Meet @scottij Dec 4, 2023 | By Rosemary, Volunteer Mentor (@rosemarya)Comment receiving replies
Nice Spot light, I particularly like the Basketball for 60 and over. What a great way to stay in shape. I once played 1/2 court with a few friends and I was faily young but got wore out in under an hour. So I'm impressed.
I'm particularly interested in why your letters did not get to the Mother. Now I'm concerned mine have not reached them either. Did you ever determine a reason? Maybe the letters went to a different family member??
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Dana,
There is a small chance your donor family has not received your letters. As you know, you send your letters to the social workers at Mayo and they forward them on to the respective donor network. Then the donor network is supposed to forward them to the family. In my situation, Covid was in full swing at my first letter, June of 2020. The respective donor network for me (I will keep that private as I do not want to cast aspersions) was working remote, had moved offices, lost personnel and generally failed to do their part. When confronted by the social workers after I began my inquiry on validity of my donor and causes for the delay they were defensive and claimed they never received letters. Subsequently they "found" three of the five letters. No apologies to me nor my donor family but we are not interested in such. We are just glad we have found each other.
Now a caution, my friend. You do know that the response rate is low. the last I heard that was while the heart is highest of solid organ transplant responses from donor families it is still only 12%.
Out of interest, how often do you write your letters?
Best always,
s!