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With the lighting in this place you can
never figure out what time it is. His
roommates were talking again about how he
would never get the transplant that he
needed in time the list was so long and he
was so sick.
The nurse came in and told him we have to
get you ready they had found him a heart. It
was on its way and they needed to get him
prep for the surgery. He looked at her ask
her to get his wife and his daughter for
him. She said there was no time. He looked
at her and told her to make the time.
He watched his wife walk in. She was so
beautiful. Their daughter behind her, her
mother’s looks and intelligence and her
father pit bull mentality and he smiled. One
on either side of his bed holding his hands.
Was he strong enough for this he didn’t
know? He done a lot bad things in his life
he cut corners and cheated when he could get
a way with. But this was different this was
where the rubber meets the road. He knew
what had to be done. He looked at his wife
and said, “ I love more now than I ever did
thank you for the life we have had. I will
miss you.”
To his daughter he said, “ Never in my
wildest dreams did I ever think that I could
have a child like you. No father anywhere at
anytime could be a more proud parent than I
am. You are the best thing that has ever
happened to me. I will love until the last
star is a memory.”
The doctor came rushing into the room and
started talking about how they had to get
him ready. He looked at wife and his
daughter then he turned to the doctor and
told him “ Doc we ain’t doing this. You give
that heart to the person on the list. I have
had a good life. Let someone else get a
chance at theirs.”
He looked at the other woman in the room as
said. “ How could God not answer your
prayer”
He looked at wife and said “ Get me out of
here while I still have the strength to
leave and before I get scared. “
The doctor left the nurse brought in a wheel
chair at he left that hospital knowing he
had done the right thing. He didn’t
particularly believe God but some else
needed that heart. He died that at his home
with wife and daughter with him. A cigarette
in his mouth and a beer in his hand. With no
regrets.
Back at the hospital days kept turning. His
roommate was recovering from getting his
heart transplant. And it looked like he
would get to see his unborn child grow up.
The nurse took a different position at the
hospital she could not work with dying
people anymore. So she went to OB/GYN
department help bring lives into the world.
As things would happen the woman whose
husband had needed the transplant months
before was there to have her baby. The nurse
was not involved in the delivery but stayed
to see the child. As she was looking at baby
thorough the window the husband showed up to
see the baby. He noticed the tears that were
running down the nurse’s face and asked her
way was she crying.
The nurse responded pointing at his child
she said “ That baby has daddy because of
the unselfishness of one man. And the baby’s
mother’s prayer.”
The man asked to explain why she would say
this about this child. She told him of a
night when she worked in the Intensive care
unit of hospital. And that a man gave up his
heart transplant to the next person on the
list. The next person on the list at the
hospital with the same blood type was the
baby’s father. .
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