what a week already!

Well, where do I start?
I suppose the first thing would be to welcome Kirstie's new lungs to their new home where I know they will be loved and cherished in ways unimaginable to me and people like me who have not been through a transplant.
But what I can understand and also this time enjoy is the feelings created by someone who although i have only known for a short amount of time I come to admire very much.
I am 14 years Kirstie's senior but she has shown me a very different side to someone living and fighting against Cystic Fibrosis and i don't think it is possible for me to oralise or put into words the feelings that I have had following her on her journey and also some of the wounds that although reopened, have also been healed.
What i mean by that is I lost my cousin Katie to CF 13 years ago and when she died she was full of bitterness and negativity which I have always accepted as normal for someone who has lived with so much pain and hardship that CF brings a person.
Kirstie, her husband Stuart, Her Mum and her sister Kerry have allowed me to see that something like this doesn't always end in a family being torn apart ike mine, but can bring people family and friends closer.
I have like many others cried alot of tears in the last few weeks and I am honestly shocked by how badly I have been affected emotionally by being involved albeit on the very distant fringes.
I have even been inspired to start my own blog as Kirstie seemed to be able pour her heart out on hers better than maybe she would even to closest family in person, and this is exactly what I find.
With new lungs and a new start I have no doubt that Kirstie will be doing even more to help get the message and importance of organ donation out there. The difference being people like me are now enthused and inspired to do the same and I have already started the ball rolling on a few things.
I also have stopped putting things off that I have been like my singing and have started a duo with my friend Mark. You can always find excuses to not do something, what I have been taught by a person so damned determined and positive is that it is easy to put things off, but nothing worth having is easy and life is too damned precious to not live every day as it is your last. So as always my blog ends with a thought/statement....
Life is fragile and all too short, don't put something off saying I will do it, but not yet. Do it now, you can make time if you try, we all work, have families and commitments, but if you want to achieve something, then do it.
Someone lost their life the day Kirstie got her lungs and a family grieves. Did they know it was their last day, of course not. But they had thought that if I die today, I do not want my body to just be wasted, my death meaningless. They had maybe read Kirsties blog? They might have read something one of us have written about organ donation? They might have seen Kirstie or another person on the telly raising awareness? or just maybe they were someone like me that knows how precious organs are and donating them is, because they lost someone like me....... But whatever prompted them to donate, I want to thank them and I hope that they can loo down upon Kirstie and al the others that might have been saved that day and know that it was the greatest gift they could ever give. So next time you find yourself with friends or family, raise a glass to the unknown hero, The Organ Donor.