Where, Oh Where, Has My Transplant Trib Gone?

MISSING IN ACTION?

For all three of you who are wondering what the Hell has happened to the Transplant Trib, I am offering several (im)plausible excuses along with semi-appropriate comments on each. If you really don't give a poop, you may skip this list and proceed directly to whatever I think of to write down there.

Reason 1...The dog ate my rough draft..................We don't have a dog,and this IS the rough draft.

Reason 2...Cherie wouldn't let me.........You KNOW that's a lie.

Reason 3...We went to Marrakesh on the
Marrakesh Express..............................It's too far from a transplant center.

Reason 4...Nothing to report..............Patently ridiculous.

Reason 5...Prednisone has worn off,
less hyper................................................Very plausible.

Reason 6...No reader interest.............Help me out on this one.

Reason 7...Enough with the reasons........OK, on to the nooz!

HEY, SUDDENLY WE ARE VOLUNTEERS!

Perhaps you recall that last Sunday morning we staffed our first CTDN booth. This one was part of the vendor/info arcade at the Eden Hospital "Run to the Lake" 5K/10K run and walk. We met a very nice young heart transplant recipient, Lennie, and her father, sister and grandma. We talked about our own experiences, answered questions about donation, gave out some trinkets, and actually signed up two people for the donor registry.

Most questions were about driver's license registration. However one visitor had an unusual suggestion. He thought it would be cool if funeral homes gave a discount to families of organ and tissue donors. He objects to the high costs associated with funerals, and thinks the government should somehow subsidize them as a public service program, like the library or the fire department. I can only imagine like Medicare or something running a public funeral program.. My very nice wife said we would pass it along. Pass it along to what?

At any rate, it was a terrific experience, although the number of visitors to our table seemed kinda light to me. Perhaps it was because we were located between the free pastry booth and the free banana table. Or maybe it was the energy drink display across the way with some very attractive energy drink ladies. I honestly don't know.

SO BOB/IRV, WHAT'S NEXT?

Funny you asked. Thursday finds us in the ultrasound department (great view but by far the dirtiest windows in the hospital), then across the street for Heart Transplant Clinic. No surprises or delays, pleeze. I cancelled my urology appointment on Friday 'cuz it scares me and I don't really need it. I got rescheduled for October 1, which is their next opening!

Cancelling that also allows us to more easily meet Dan and Carol Henry for dinner at Burma Superstar prior to attending The Crucible's "Heat: A Fire Cabaret", an exhibition that is impossible to adequately describe in this issue. Suffice it to say it is spectacular, at the very least.

That about covers it for now.

Bob/Irv