Happy "Transplantiversary"!

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.

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/

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

@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

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

@rosemarya
Happy Transplantiversary! Your years of good health are such a blessing, and something I know you are very grateful for. I hope you have many, many more years of great health.
Hugs, Jane

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?

@keggebraaten Thank you Kristin for that information. I know my friend went through a lot in those months leading up to her husband's death. We went to dinner with them and then we were out of touch for about a month. I called to see if they wanted to go to dinner again and he had passed away! I was stunned, not only because he looked pretty good when we went out but that she hadn't let me know. He had so many problems in the end there, I know it was very tough to go through.
JK

@contentandwell, I saw your question about pancreas transplants for cancer and I was with our pancreas doctors yesterday, so I asked about it. Pancreas transplants are not performed for cases of pancreas cancer, except for very limited exceptions (when a pancreas has been removed for some other cause) but the transplant is not performed for cancer. Pancreatic cancer can be so difficult to go through. My sympathies to you and your friend for her loss.
- Kristin

@rosemarya That's encouraging, that you are now no longer having to take prednisone. I am a low dose now though so that is not causing me problems. My blood sugar is fine and with that low dose I am not gaining weight. Prior to transplant I was on a prednisone regimen for a couple of weeks and I gained about 30 pounds! That doctor let me come off of it a couple of days early.
JK