5 Years On…

Today, 10th of March 2010, is the fifth year anniversary of the bone marrow transplant which I gave to my sister who was diagnosed of Aplastic Anemia in early January 2005 while in America.

During the summer of 2004 my sister went to Greece for two or three months to earn some money but ended up in more debt than to begin with. She returned home and went to America on a scholarship to Washington College in August and while there fell sick and was diagnosed with Hepatitis C or A, and was given medicine and told to rest. In December she returned for Xmas and was not too well going back to America.

2 weeks back and she was in hospital and my parents left the following morning after receiving a phone call saying my sister was in hospital. The diagnosis was not known at this time. While at a meeting in the Day’s house Dan prayed for me and said that God will use me soon to bring new life. Couple of weeks later my sister returned to Ireland and was sent to St James’s Hospital Dublin for treatment of Aplastic Anemia. The treatment was for a bone marrow transplant which meant that my Brother or I would be the donor.

After blood samples given to see who would be the best match, I knew I would be the donor, it was calling inside me. Thats what happened, I was about to “bring new life”. God had and still has a hand on my life and being able to bring a new life to people is a great thing to do.

I wish to thank all those who were praying for my family, my sister and I and all those who were giving me support.

Where do I belong?

All of us know how cold it is outside.

It’s almost unbearable out there.

Especially when we’re there

alone,

isolated,

lonely.

You were never meant to be….

alone

Soul Cravings: Erwin Raphael McManus

This is a fantastic book that deals with stories of people cravings and understanding of Intimacy, Love, Ambition, Destiny, Origin, Meaning, Life and Death.

Where Have You Gone?!?!?!

As I mentioned on Twitter last week I have not done a blog post in a while, mainly due to college work/study and being away for the past few weekends.

College is ramping up now with 2 assessments due and exams only 3 weeks away too. What is also ridiculous is the fact that lectures are running up to a week before the exams which blows my mind as anything you learn in the last week before exams is rarely studied as you have prepared yourself on the rest of the course. The exams that I will be dealing with are:

– Cell and Molecular Biology
– Genetic Engineering
– Modern Methods in Analytical Chemistry
– Functional Foods for Health
– Advanced Molecular Microbial Biotechnology
– Biopharmaceuticals; Formulation Design, Secondary Processing and Regulatory Compliance
– Bioprocess Engineering
– Plant Genetic Engineering

Not only is saying the name of some of these modules are hard but learning them is a lot more so. But not to worry I am not stressed at all over them (*Lie*) as I have been taking time off away in Achill and Tralee over the last two weekends ^_^

The trip to Achill was to reminisce the last time we had made the trip which we realized was not even 3 years ago which we felt was a lot longer ago. But we had a great time of drinking, chatting and having the craic, and lets not forget the total driving time of 11 hours.

The trip to Tralee was for my Great Aunt’s Anniversary mass of one year. This was a great weekend of staying in Tralee, like I did during my childhood. 40 Brosnans took on Tralee with drinking, eating and more drinking. While we were in Tralee, I managed to capture this in a pub down there.

It was great to see my Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and 2nd Cousins all enjoying the time together. It was great also with getting my own room at the Manor West Hotel in Tralee which was at a bargain of  €40 B&B which was because there was so many of us there with a possibility of many more. It seems that we will be going down each year and not because it was the first anniversary which would be great.