I wanted to update about yesterday. I went back to school! (I wish!) I went to the Picton highschool and gave 2 presentations about organ donation. I think it went well. The students were very receptive to it and hopefully I will get some volunteers for the Donor registration Drive on Saturday. I explained the significance of receiving an organ and I showed on one slide what the extra time meant to my mom. I had 5-6 girls in tears while I explained her story. I don't know if that's considered successful or not, but I hit home on how inportant it is. I also generated a Jeopardy game afterwards and gave out prizes to the winning teams. That went over really well and I could tell a good chunk of the students had been listening because they knew the answers. It was pretty cool. I will likely go back in Jan-Feb. I enjoyed it. It wasn't my intention to make people cry, maybe if I hadn't of choked up it would have helped! Be that as it may, this is real. If I get emotional it's because I'm living this. People who don't experience this can't portray the emotion that I can and get the point made like I can. This is why I like to talk about it.
I want to thank Ms. Curran for letting me to speak with the class. I didn't have many pictures, but really, what was I supposed to photograph? I put up my favourite picture of mom and the kids. I tried to explain to the classes that while mom was sick you have to look past the sickness and see how happy she was to be with her grandchildren.
When all of this started my friend and co-worker said to me 'Make sure you get pictures of her with Ben'. I didn't want to, I didn't want to remember her like that. Now I'm so grateful that I have that one shot.
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