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So I wrote this letter to the donor family. Is it too cheezy? It's too cheezy and pandering.

On December 23, 2025, I had heart surgery to swap out a poorly designed Aortic Valve from birth that had gotten clogged up with calcification and poor flow regime over fifty years. This is a procedure that was always going to happen as I approached fifty years. It started getting bad. Could not walk very far without exhaustion and weird pains. I knew it was time, and the numbers indicated the same thing.

Recommended to a surgeon Dr. William Kent who is an absolute brilliant human. This procedure is quite recent and not done in Calgary until he got the qualifications. The Ross Procedure where they take you’re your pulmonary valve and swap it into your Aortic valve that was garbage then replace the pulmonary with….

But….. now I need a pulmonary valve and that’s where you guys come into the story, they call it a homograft or cadaver valve, which I believe is a ####ty term for that, but it’s clinical and precise so I guess it makes sense. It always seemed so flippant and disrespectful, but I get to live longer so who am I to argue.

It’s been a year now and I am doing well, everything went well (so far) and the Surgeon told me I am likely good for the rest of my life.

They do not tell me about who you are, but whoever died for me is now a living part of me. We are living together and I am their vessel.

I just want to thank you for your son/daughter/mother/father because they are me now. The ultimate sacrifice for some goof engineer in Calgary with a bum ticker.

Selfishly I kinda want to know who I am now a part of but if you have no interest in that, I totally understand. Thank you from the bottom of my previously ####ty heart.