I am writing this tonight with a very saddened heart! A good friend of ours was in a horrific accident involving a log truck. He was taken to Erlanger hospital in Chattanooga Tn. He showed no brain activity so Tn state law says they can't stay on a ventilator more than 24 hrs. We were all praying for a miracle. He was a very young man, just turned 21 last April. He was married with a 9 month old son.
His family decided to donate his organs. They let his wife lay with him on the hospital bed before they harvested the organs. Most people thinks this is strange, but if it were my husband I would have wanted to. Another lady said, just think, she got to hear his heartbeat and fell his warmth beside her one last time, even if he were on a ventilator.
This is the saddest thing I have ever had to deal with. We did not see the young man every day, but when we did he was always smiling and went out of his way to talk to us anywhere. He was loved by the whole town. We live 2 hrs away from the hospital he was taken to. My husband said there was more than 50 people from our town there.
It is fitting that this young man who was so nice and would give you the shirt off his back,that his organs will go on to help someone else. I like to think that this evening someone got phone call telling them to come to the hospital because someone has donated a heart, lung, kidney, liver, you name it. Someones life was made a whole lot better thru this tragedy.
Rest in Peace Dustin Dwayne Gourley "Bubba". Born April 1988. Died August 2009.
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