Yesterday was Jim’s birthday. He is 48 years old, celebrating with his family and friends. It was also the 2 year mark of Jim being placed on the heart transplant list more permanently (he had to get the shingles vaccine and the hepatitis A and B vaccines first). We’re not celebrating the second milestone so much. To be honest, the waiting list anniversary kind of ruined the birthday. Waiting for this long is absolutely soul-sucking.

Since we’ve been writing this blog about Jim and his family’s journey through unimaginable territory, we’ve reached a lot of milestones and reached a lot of people. People like you from Canada, US and…Nicaragua; South Korea; United Kingdom; Ireland; Phillipines; Italy; Mongolia; Cyprus; Brazil; Russia; Kuwait and Spain – to name a few. Last week we hit 60,000 views – an incredible achievement for a blog like this. And today marks our 90^th post. That Jim and Marah are brave enough and caring enough about you to share their incredibly difficult story is remarkable enough. That they are still doing it, 2 years in, is terrible.

The milestone we are looking for is the first day with a new heart. We believe that this will happen for Jim. Sooner than later please.

You can help Jim and others achieve their milestones by signing up to be a donor.

Happy Birthday Jim.

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