So, most of you know, that when Michael was 14, he had a liver transplant, one of the things that has always touched my heart was during the time he was on the waiting list, I guess he overheard bits and pieces of conversations between the doctors and me. We weren't sure if the donor was gonna be a live donor or what, i had volunteered and also a friend of mine had volunteered.
Well I remember the morning the call came, it was about 2 am, I was in the Ronald McDonald House, across the street from the hospital, they told me they had a perfect match....When I got to Michael's room, he was wide awake....he knew something was up, as soon as I told him, he said" I don't want it" I'm sure he was so very scared.
Anyway, the surgery took all day. I remember sitting in the waiting room crying, I was so scared. There was a lady sitting next to me and she was upset as well. We started talking, she told me her son was supposed to have surgery but the surgeon had been called in to do an emergency liver transplant, i told her, that was my son, so there we sat both of us hugging each other and worried about our sons....
A few days later, when the surgeon came in to check on Michael, he grabbed the Dr and hugged him so tight and he he was crying, he told him, thank you for saving my life and he kept asking, "is the other kid alright"? He didn't know, at that time, the donor was a 12 year old boy named Josh, who had been killed in a car accident, so we had to tell him.....i think he always felt guilty for that......
OK, whew...now the sad stuff out of the way, and i have had to stop for a minute........
We had gone down to Texas to visit my mom, after his surgery.....well he was on all these meds and some of them made his hair grow, almost uncontrollably, well his eyebrows were out of control, so we bought one of those little trimmers and he wanted me to trim them for him, so here we go, into my mom's bathroom, all the other kids waiting outside the door, well right when I started trimming, he coughed without warning me, well, there was a big gash right in the middle of his eyebrow...I didn't mean to laugh, and he was so mad...One of their little friends, she was so sweet, she did hers that way, just to make him feel better, lol
So I just wanted to share those two moments with y'all, both of them had been on my mind lately, so I figured Mikey must have wanted me to tell y'all the stories, I hope y'all enjoyed them.....
I miss him so much and I always will....
Love you Mikey, See You When I See You!
