Last Saturday I received some very sad news that a dear friend of mine passed away from a lifelong battle with Cystic Fibrosis, he was only 21 years old. He had a lung transplant earlier last year and had been doing well and then started going into rejection but was stable, then in December before Christmas he ended up on a venelator in the ICU, doctors said his only hope would be another lung transplant, but he wasn't strong enough. His mother had to make the decision of turning off the machines. However, he woke up and said he wanted to fight, the doctor said that it was a miracle that he woke up and he had not seen anything like it in all his years. Still on the venelator he was number 1 on the transplant list. Sadly he eventually said he no longer wanted to fight because he felt that the chances of recovering were very slim, and he wanted somebody else who really needed a pair of lungs to get them. He bravely chose to die peacefully with his mother and brother by his side.
Finding out that he passed was very sad, but I was happy that he was no longer in pain and he was now home with God. My friend had always been an inspiration and a beam of hope and courage and he will be greatly missed. I sometimes ask myself why good people like him have to die, but that maybe something we can't explain. We must accept that God wants us all to eventually come home, whether we as individuals or our families our ready. Everything happens for a reason.
Joyful Love
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Blessings In The Lord
Alexandra K. Acosta
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