kind cards

i woke up today with such a sore throat I could not even swallow... speaking or talking?... forget about it.

sigh.
le sigh.
double sigh.
deep sigh.
sigh.

is there any way a double lung, 9 months, post transplant recipient could wake up tomorrow and feel better?? in time for my flight to washington?

I seriously just booked the flight three days ago. I cannot say i'm going ANYWHERE from now on until I'm actually sitting on the plane and have LEFT the tarmac. le sigh...

anyways here is something really cute that happened last week. My aunt tutors a couple students, and one had exceptionally good behaviour for the week, so as his reward they donated money to the CF foundation.

My Aunt wanted him to understand where his money was going and how his good behaviour helped the CF foundation. They watched the video breathless of me that my friends eric and filipe made (click here to take a gander at it), Then she got him to go up and down the stairs breathing through a straw to know how it feels to live and breathe with CF.

Here is my aunts email to me, and his response to the question...
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"Hi Hattie,
Thanks for preparing half my lesson by having that amazing Youtube video. I was helping Riley to prepare for his EQAO testing by looking up reading questions on last year's test. There was a story on Wayne Gretzky with questions to answer after reading the story and a writing piece to do. They kept referring to Wayne as 'The Great One' in the story. I had just received my letter from CF for my next donation that day. When Riley arrived and told me the news that he had been a good boy at school, one thing just led to another.....
1. Let's celebrate your good choices by donating to CF.
2. Let me help you understand what CF is, by watching my niece's video.
3. Let's prepare you (a very active little boy) by experiencing first hand what Hattie is talking about.
4. Let's get a straw and breathe through it while running up and down the stairs 10 times,
5. Let's talk about who REALLY IS the Great One!!!! and why!!!

Riley listened very attentively to your story. This is a difficult task for him. He clearly heard the stats about being the No. 1 children's disease and the scraping out of the lungs to put the new ones in.

Here is his response:
Explain why Hattie Dunstan can be called the "Great One." Use details from the video and your own ideas to support your answer.

Hattie dunstan is a great one becasue she was brave to go to the doctor and tell him she wanted new lungs and get the serjoory.
She knew that children die when they have CF so  she did all the right things to grow up and be older. Then she wouldn't be a child anymore. When your are younger you will die more eyeser.That is why she has her thumbs up. She is proud of being brave.

Describe how Hattie appreciates the lung donations that help CF patients to have a new start on life.

Hattie appreciatated the donation because she was sick and she was the one who needed the lungs. People are lucky. They can breeth so they don't appreciate the donations. The people who sign their sharing cards are great ones too. They want to share. They have kind cards to tell people they are nice and want to share.
She also appreciates the donation by sending a letter to the people that gave her the donation.  The family who gave Hattie the lungs are sad but they are 'Great Ones' too!
Hattie was great to do her homework. She knew how to breeth then. 

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Number 1 how awesome is that kid! friggin wicked. 

Number 2 i LOVE the idea of educating kids when they are young all about organ donation! 

Number 3 how adorable is he? my fav part "they have kind cards to tell people they are nice and want to share" [talking about signing the organ donor cards. really? SO cute.] 

it's hard to go wallow in self pity that I am not headed to washington anymore, after reading that cute little email! 

hey at least the sun is shining today...it could be snowing!