Ok, today it is time for me to tell you a short story
about a girl that I met one day.
Her name was Javiera and she was the 3rd of
4 siblings. She was perfectly happy, had a lot of friends and was a very
catholic child. She enjoyed going to church every Sunday and going to Schoenstatt on Fridays and Saturdays. Everything was perfect until one day a
bleeding that was suspiciously hard to stop called her family’s
attention. After several exams she was diagnosed with a disease that affected
her veins and blood. The only solution to this was chemotherapy but it didn’t
work. The next option was bone marrow transplant
and as you may guess it didn’t
arrive on time. Javiera died on December 5th, 2010 at age of 15.
Today in Chile there are more than 1370 people waiting
for organ transplantation and another 1000 waiting for any kind of tissue; as
cornea, bones, skin or heart valves. But
the reality says that only a few hundred of those men, women and children will
actually receive help on time.
I personally am an organ donor and my family knows it.
When I went to get my new ID card the lady didn’t asked me if I wanted to be
donor even if she was supposed to do it by law. Nonetheless I expressed my will because I don’t want more Javiera’s in my
country.
I cannot stop wondering if you had a case as close as
the one that I had it would make you think
different about organ donations. I’m just asking you to stop for a minute and think in all those families
that may be benefit after the dead of someone. It is time for us to give life!
