{"id":1600,"date":"2025-01-03T19:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T19:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2025-07-20T15:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:03:17","slug":"transplant-superheroes-and-the-chance-to-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/transplant-superheroes-and-the-chance-to-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Transplant superheroes, and the chance to go home&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tenth day of Christmas, and today&#8217;s songs come from Charlotte.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How these friends managed to narrow their songs down to a few contributions for these blogs, even with the overlapping choices that underline their shared experiences so well, is hard to imagine.\u00a0 Has to be a tough job.\u00a0 When they are all together at the Transplant Games, or wherever, music and dancing are never far away.\u00a0 Nor is laughter.\u00a0 They have enough in common already in their stories of health and hospitals and medications and procedures, any opportunity to share the joy of being\u00a0together is a gift to be relished.\u00a0 It&#8217;s their\u00a0eloquent tribute to their donors and\u00a0donor families, to their own families, their friends, and\u00a0to the gift of life.\u00a0 No surprise then that some of the songs\u00a0are repeated.\u00a0 And for some, when there&#8217;s an opportunity to sit together in the lap of a koala bear, it just has to be taken&#8230;(see below!).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you, Charlotte, for these songs, and the places they take you&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;My Love, by Westlife<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; I love Westlife and we used to listen to this song when I was in hospital and was apart from my family, reminding us we would all be back together one day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;ll never walk alone<\/strong> and <strong>We are the champions<\/strong> are both Transplant Games favourites, probably been given by everyone! <em>(So true, Charlotte!\u00a0 More of this to come on day 12&#8230;)<\/em>\u00a0 They bring us together and remind us we have all been through our own journeys that people in the &#8216;outside world&#8217; can&#8217;t always relate to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Superheroes, by The Script<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>The Climb by Miley Cyrus<\/strong>.\u00a0 These two just make you think about how far you&#8217;ve come and everything you&#8217;ve been through to get there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hold on we&#8217;re going home, by Drake.\u00a0<\/strong> This one might be a bit of a random one, but I used to listen to it in hospital and it made me feel so lucky that I was going to get better and go home, as I knew not everyone would.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1632 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Charlotte-and-Lucia-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte and Lucia\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Charlotte-and-Lucia-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Charlotte-and-Lucia-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Charlotte-and-Lucia.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><em>Charlotte (left)\u00a0with Lucia<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenth day of Christmas, and today&#8217;s songs come from Charlotte.\u00a0 How these friends managed to narrow their songs down to a few contributions for these blogs, even with the overlapping choices that underline their shared experiences so well, is hard to imagine.\u00a0 Has to be a tough job.\u00a0 When they are all together at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news-and-events","category-personal-story","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phtpid-pO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live-loudly-donate-proudly.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}