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May the Good Lord bless and keep you and your little one. May a miracle shine forth, that you receive a kidney yourself through the miraculous hand of God. Jesus said, what you have done to the least of these, you did the ultimate in giving of yourself, may he also give back to you the life you have shared.

Thank you and Dr. Alex for your prayers...

My son will be 6 in a week and he is doing quite well but as a transplant patient with immunosuppression he will always have issues. He is our little miracle baby because in utero the doctors wanted us to abort both him and his twin sister, Nadia. Then shortly after birth they wanted us to DNR him, as the complications from his 9 week prematurity and the kidney failure seemed to render him incompatible for life. The best doctors in the world were on his team and they were all wrong. God granted that he should live 14 months with virtually no kidney function without dialysis until he was big enough for transplantation. The doctors who pushed us to DNR at birth apologized later on. Now the same doctors want Josh as their poster child because he looks normal (aside from being very tiny and having hearing aids), acts normal and is very -"all boy". I am more worried about him killing himself climbing trees or making skateboard jumps than about the transplant.

His favorite story is the St. George and the Dragon by Margoret Hodges-ie. the legend about St. George and England. But at the moment I have to cut this short and rescue my van from being covered in water inside and out, from said child.

Holly

Mom to Tara, Joshua, Nadia, baby deceased, Tegan, and Keara

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Speaking of 'merrie olde England', I have been enamored of late with a series called 'The Tudors', showing in beautiful historical detail and brilliant acting, the very Catholic atmosphere and worship of the early days of King Henry VIII.

Dear Alice,

I'm going to offer a critique about this series. Although the series shows the dances, (which I love), clothes and some of the customs of the times, it is faulty in other things. As so many things in our politically correct era, there is an over emphasis on sex. They show practices that would have had them hung and quartered 200 years ago, nevertheless during a time when puritanism was on the rise.

They projected a creative genius as being a practicing homosexual, in order to give the illusion that the two go hand in hand, and they disregarded the formality and politeness of the speech during that era...as well as the arrogance of the upper classes towards their 'inferiors'. Frankly I'm a little tired of our shows and their agenda's, and it's a pity I have to watch all this, in order to grab the bits and pieces of the reality of the times.

I love history. Can't they show it completely as it was, (that is without the physical deformities that were commonplace)...but at least without the crude speech, and being so sexually explicit.

Sorry about that Alice. Otherwise it is a good series.

God Bless,

Zenovia

Dear Annie,

I always loved that series. I'm waiting for it to come back on PBS. I also hope the British comedy about the German occupation in France will also return. It was hilarious! I think the problem is that only old people like me can relate to it. It was a satire of the movies of the era.

God Bless,

Zenovia

I don't know when it will be on PBS, but 'Allo 'Allo is the britcom of which you speak. It was recently released on DVD and my wife has steadily been purchasing them for me as gifts over the past couple of years.

I never tire of watching them.

Dear Holly,

This is the website of George Marcello, a dear friend of mine, who walked across Canada to promote organ and tissue donation:

www.stepbystep.ca [stepbystep.ca]

He was actually called to Rome to personally meet Pope John Paul II who blessed his torch.

I'm privileged to work with him at the Legislature to help promote his sixth annual walk, involving students, with the same torch!

Hopefully, we'll have them in the Legislature to be recognized.

My Member, Frank Klees, MPP, has worked on two pieces of legislation related to this, one on organ donation and the other to declare April 2nd "Pope John Paul II Day In Ontario" (and we have had THOUSANDS of signatures of support for the latter - 1,500 in one day and 1,800 yesterday!!). www.frank-klees.on.ca [frank-klees.on.ca]

Because of George's first name, and because "Organ Donation Awareness Week" falls on St George's Day . . . I made the suggestion . . . that George is very keen on since St George is a symbol of VICTORY!

May that same Victory be manifestly evident in your family life, as it already is in your maternal heart!

Now you got me crying . . .

Alex

Dear Holly,

May our Lord always bless you and Joshua George Opalenik. May He always watch over you, and may Saint George be your special protector and valiant warrior, fighting forever whatever obstacles may appear in your lives.

May you be truly blessed,

Zenovia

Dear Zenovia,

Sometimes I wish my son would take a little bit more to Saint Dominic Savio instead of a "warrior" like St. George. The activity level scares me a bit more than the medical condition...so at the moment I am asking St. George to intercess a tiny bit less and St. Dominic Savio, a whole bunch more:) This comes after I watched my son, teach himself how to ride his bike by squattiing on the seat, instead of sitting nicely and pedaling normally. I am very afraid that I am going to be seeing the X games in the future with this child.

Holly