Re: Knowing ALL of our Choices

[Guest guest]

and Makelam,

I completely understand what you mean when you say, " The Whipple and puestow

were the only choices we were aware of then ...  and the islet cell yield was

very

poor because of the prior surgery.   I wish we had known all our options back

then... "

It is impossible to go back, and wasteful to donate a lot of time thinking

about our lost choices, but a day doesn't go by that I don't have a fleeting

memory of asking the doctors if a transplant was possible. I try to use that

memory to focus my mission of ensuring others always know what their choices

are,

and that the choice is always theirs, and knowing this before it is too late

to be a choice.

Would Makelem be up to coming to Indy to participate in the panel with other

TP/ICT recipients? I am not sure where in MO you live. But you would both add

so much.

Karyn E. , RN,

Exec. Director, PAI

*http://www.pancassociation.org