I AM LUCKY ... yep "it" saved my life

Have you ever found one of these?

Happy St. Paddy's day! I am not Irish but sometimes I feel like I have the luck of the Irish! Do you?

Recently I joined the Quantum Surfing book launch team. I am reviewing a book on this subject which I find absolutely fascinating. She writes about intuition as not being a gut feeling but more of a feeling of alignment. No more about the book, it is launching in April and you will be able to purchase it on Amazon.

There have been times when I have thought something, forgotten about it, and then boom... it's there, it just happens! How so?

I once really wanted a black and white graphic picture with a gold frame to hang on my wall in my new condo, a friend of mine had one and I really liked it. The very next day as I was walking through the underground parking area, I passed the garbage area and there right in front of my eyes was "the picture"... exactly as I had imagined! Someone was throwing it out... hmmm

Another time I remember a bunch of us gathered together at work looking at flyers of the competition and we were all oooohing and aaaahing about the Joe Fresh flyer. They used to have some really cool outfits back then when Joe Mimran still ran the show. Anyhow, I thought how awesome it word be to work with Joe again, I had worked with him at Club Monaco. At the time , I was one of the lucky ones, and I was working for Walmart. Sams Club Canada shut it doors and they kept a few of us buyers on and gave us jobs with Walmart. A couple of weeks later I would find myself in an interview for the Senior Womens category Manager at Joie Fresh Loblaw! Yes, I got the job... just saying.

Now for the lifesaving "luck"!

Some of you may know that I am a lung cancer survivor ONLY because I randomly decided one day to donate half my liver to a friend of a friend!

It was November 2018 and I was at a dinner party my friend Gloria was hosting . I remember she was sad and not her bubbly effervescent self. She was desperately trying to find a living liver donor for her best friend. The donor needed to be under 60, OP blood type and have never had cancer before.

THAT WAS ME!

At the time I was training to run the Boston marathon, so I said to Gloria, wait, I will do it, I qualify as a donor on all 3 requirements! She can absolutely have half my liver, but let me first run Boston and then they can do the transplant!

And that was that, I registered, did all the paperwork and then the testing started.

For some reason I never shared this with anyone. I did not want anyone to dissuade me from doing this. I didn't tell my sons. I was on a mission to "Save Susan" and I wanted this. I felt "compelled" to do this, like someone was pushing me and nudging me strongly.

One night heading out for a run after spending the entire day at Toronto General getting tested for EVERYTHING, bloodwork ECG's, CT scans, MRI's , you name it, they did it, I got a call from the transplant doctor. Ummmm Morgan we have taken you off the transplant list and I am handing you over to the thoracic surgery department because the CT scan of your chest revealed a mark that needs further investigation! What the hell... are you serious? Two days later I had a biopsy of the suspicious mark and another 3 days later I went back to the hospital to get the results. LUNG CANCER... the words no one ever wants to hear. The good news was, it was stage 1. LUCKY for me, a spot had opened up and I could have a lobectomy 2 days later where they would remove the top lobe of my right lung and take all the cancer with it! How lucky was I that it was found at stage one!

I have been cancer free for 7 years now AND yes, I did run the Boston marathon three years later on my 60th birthday!

Have a lucky day...!