Family

Families are bodies. They work when all the pieces can collaborate and function together. Without there are few things that can be missing from it and it still works. Every body is unique. My body lost its heart a long time ago. When this happened it forced the other parts to work harder to survive. The brain in all it’s amazing glory somehow found a way to pump the blood through the veins all the while it thought as well. After all it had the rest of the body to care for. This went on for some time. All the while the body kept working. At a slower pace, but it kept moving. Because it had to. The heart if it were there would not have let it down so the brain and the rest of the body were not going to let the heart down in its absence. The body could feel itself moving slower, but it kept moving and was content to move at that speed. The brain used what blood it needed for itself to give to the rest of the body parts. The brain, though it learned to pump the blood out of necessity, couldn’t do it as well as the heart could. After all it’s just one organ. So the brain found a new heart. And the heart became part of the body. This heart was different. It pumped the blood differently and the blood was not the same.  The new heart came from a body of its own. This heart was damaged, but so was its new body. When the transplant was complete the body felt different. It didn’t see how hard the brain struggled doing the thinking and pumping the blood at the same time. Some of the tissue rejected the new heart. But other parts took to it. This new body was full again and the brain was happy to have a heart. And the heart was happy to have a brain. The brain thought of ways to repair the heart and the heart was able to pump the blood to the brain that it so desperately needed. If it weren’t for this new damaged heart, the brain would have ceased to function and  the body would have died, leaving just parts, not a functioning whole. And if the heart had no new body it would have remained damaged until it to ceased to exist.

I ‘m just thankful for the transfusion.