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.

Scary Stuff O_o

My random act of kindness yesterday was helping my neighbour after her house was broken into when she was out. She had left her house to drop her kid to martial arts training and upon her return she noticed the door of her house ajar and when she got to the kitchen, drawers and cupboards had been opened and gone through. It was then she ran out of the house and called our house asking for my father, who was not in. She told me what happened and I said I would be down to her, as she wanted someone to check out the house.

I headed to the house where my neighbour was shook up. I went into the house and checked the rooms downstairs and upstairs too and saw the devastation that the burglars caused. They had gone through drawers, cupboards and wardrobes all in the hope of finding cash and presumably gold as this can now be sent into agencies for quick cash without consent. Games consoles, TVs, Laptops were all still there, untouched. After checking the house out, she called the Garda, who responded fairly quickly. The neighbour was only out of the house about an hour and half for all this to happen. I wanted around for the Gardai to come, make her a cup of tea make sure I was not needed for anything else.

This was not the only bugarlry to happen that night in the same time frame with a house around the corner being hit. They had gone out around the same time as my neighbour and returned to find their house all askew also. This recessionary tiger is beginning to show its teeth with houses being targeted.