You could almost hear someone whisper all over the building if they were on stage. Whenever things of great importance happen to you, you always seem to remember the details of the scene. The noises, smells, sounds all are burned into your mind forever. As I waited for Tarrah to tell me something, any kind of news good or bad, I could not keep still. I was gnawing on my nails, something I never do, and swaying from side to side anxiously.

I tried to distinguish what Madison’s mother was saying by Tarrah’s facial expressions and gestures. She was clutching the phone so tight, you might have thought that if she held any tighter the news would be that Madison was 100% better and would live a long life. Weird or imaginative things go on in your mind during extreme situations. Then, I saw it. Tarrah’s cringing face became relaxed and her eyebrows unknotted. I began to breathe much easier. She holds the phone to her chest and looks up at me with tears in her eyes. “Madison got a new heart!” she said in a quivering voice. I immediately began to thank the Lord for this wonderful miracle. Tarrah told Madison’s Mom to give her our love and tell her that our prayers were with her, and she hung up the phone. We both began to smile really big with tear filled eyes. Of course they were tears of joy though, the best kind.

I had never given organ donating a second thought until my friend Madison’s situation

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