I'm sorry I'm late!!! I try my bestest to post on Thursdays, but I've been involved in exciting stuff* and I was whupped. One of these days Ted & Jenn are going to start docking my pay...
Last week I mentioned a lady named Cathy Doheny. She writes for www.examiner.com about organ and tissue donation. She wanted to interview a donor family member and a recipient, and Scott over at I am. Are you? referred her to Tim Joos and me…
She sent both Tim and me a series of questions, and she published her stories as a series of interviews… She began each series with some background – Last week she wrote about Samantha and the Joos family. This week she wrote about me. Then she follows with a Q&A series. I like how they turned out… You can link to all three articles about Samantha and her family at the bottom of my last post.
This week, Cathy wrote about me and my journey through transplant – about my wait and my “false alarms” – and about connecting with Kari’s family, and some of my feelings about Kari and her family.
What she has put together so far is beautiful – and I truly appreciate her efforts in telling our stories – both Samantha’s and her family's story – and mine and Kari’s.
6/1 Double lung transplant recipient Steve Ferkau
6/2 Interview with double lung transplant survivor Steve Ferkau
6/3 More insight from lung transplant recipient Steve Ferkau
6/4 Steve Ferkau discusses his double lung transplant experience
6/5 Lung transplant recipient Steve Ferkau discusses connecting with the donor family
6/6 Final thoughts from double lung transplant recipient Steve Ferkau
Cathy dedicated six days of articles to the questions she sent me... At the end of the last article she wrote, "I want to thank Steve for his time and care in answering all of my questions. He and Kari have been amazing sources of inspiration to me, as they have, no doubt, been to readers. They are both my heroes!"
I hope she understands that she is one of my heroes as well, for helping me tell more people about Kari... Thank you, Cathy.
* One of the exciting things I’m involved in is happening a week from today – here is a link about it. In the upper left of the program under “11am to 12pm / short film screenings” – in the "Life Theater", "Circle of Life" is the video produced by Donate Life Illinois about Kari and me. And, this is the short film…
I'll likely post more about this next week...
