Transplant nurses received worldwide thanks at ITNS Conference in St. Louis
September 26th, 2008 and now you too can read them here . . .
  This is the continuation of the letters on the previous page. 

    To read, click on the lines below to view the letter that will download as a PDF file (most downloads are approx 500k).
(we continue to post weekly, so come back for more as this list grows to several hundred letters...last updated 11/8/08)

56. thank you from Jim, heart recipient '94, now married to a donor mom in '05
    
57. thank you from Joe, heart recipient '92
58. thank you from Joe, 71 year young kidney recipient
59. thank you from John & Ginny, Ginny is husband John's living kidney donor
    
60. thank you from Jon, kidney recipient in '79 and again in '84
61. thank you from "JT" - kidney recipient from a large family of many kidney recipients
62. thank you from Karen, kidney recipient way  back in 1970, again in 2007
63. thank you from Kay, wife to a heart recipient
64. thank you from Ken, heart recipient
65. thank you from Laurel, wife to deceased donor
66. thank you from Linda and Frank, Frank a liver recipient (now needs a kidney) and wife, Linda, a nurse, needs lungs
67. thank you from Marjorie, a kidney/pancreas recipient, and now has received 2nd pancreas
68. thank you from Martha, a heart recipient
69. thank you from Mel, a heart recipient
70. thank you from Nancy who received her liver back in '93
71. thank you from Nilsa, liver recipient in '99
72. thank you from Pat, liver recipient
73. thank you from Raenotta, transpalnt recipient 4 years ago
74. thank you from Richard, a three time liver recipient
75. thank you from Rose, mother of a heart recipient son at age 14 (he's now 25)
    
76. thank you from Sally, a liver recipient
    
77. thank you from Sandra, a double lung recipient
    
78. thank you from Sandy, a "donor mom"
    
79. thank you from Sue, living kidney donor to her husband (who later received another from his daughter)
    
80. thank you from Susan, 17 year out heart recipient
    
81. thank you from Theresa, lung recipient
    
82. thank you from Vinny, a heart recipient twice over
    
83. thank you from Warren, a kidney recipient
    
84. thank you from Frank, on behalf of "Transplant Speakers" organization
    
85. thank you from HollyM, a kidney recipient from a living donor
    
86. thank you from Nana and Papa, grandparents to a donor granddaughter
    
87. thank you from KarenP, kidney/pancreas recipient in 1989!
    
88. thank you from Al, a heart recipient twenty years ago!
    
89. thank you from Vito, a liver recipient
    
90. thank you from Tom and Nancy, for Tom's liver transplant
    
91. thank you from Walt, a double lung recipient
    
92. thank you from JimC, heart recipient
    
93. thank you from SusanP, a kidney/pancreas US Transplant Games medal winner
    
94. thank you from SteveG, a very recent double lung recipient
    
95. thank you from LarraineDeP, a very active liver recipient out 19 years
    
96. thank you from LisaS, mother of Erica, a 20 year old 2007 liver recipient
    
97. thank you from MaribelC, a 2006 double lung recipient
    
98. thank you from AngelinaM, 27 year old 2007 double lung recipient
    
99. thank you from AnitaF, wife of a two time heart recipient (1990 and 1998)

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    It has been my honor to create this resource and provide a delivery service for recipients and donors all around the world to be able to reach out and thank our nurses in this unique way.  For letter writers, it is never too late.  To add your own "Thank You to a transplant nurse" letter to this growing list, just e-mail it to GleasonJIm@aol.com (I will add the graphic paper and format it for you before posting, so just focus on your words)

Sincerely,
Jim Gleason
heart recipient, Oct, 1994
e-mail: GleasonJim@aol.com
  
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