Why We Do It

2011 Third Annual

Our mission is to advance awareness of organ donation and benefit the candidate.  

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You've just been told your loved one will die soon.  Your only hope is a solid organ transplant. 

Imagine yourself in that place.  Imagine how much time you miss from work because of care giving in the hospital, going to doctors or sick at home. 

Most of us don't work for people that care enough about you to suffer through that with you.  Now you find yourself without a job or taking a job with less pay, no benefits and people that care even less about you and your problems.  This is a worst case scenario but at all levels this is hard. 

Friends and neighbors have helped and helped but they are becoming tired of the load.  Even those who were so heart broken for you and gave so much to help are becoming distant and unavailable.

You realize that you can't rely on the generosity of others completely and the only thing you know to do is to work, so you work yourself to death and then you come home and give more energy than you have left to tend to your loved one.  You become so exhausted but you can't quit. 

You start looking at the things you have around the house thinking about how to turn them into money.  Sentimentally priceless objects suddenly have a yard sale price on them.  You exhaust every avenue of loans and at the end of the day you realize that all of this will never be enough.

You have the hope of getting the transplant but even that hope means you may have tens of thousands of dollars in co pay because of the lack of coverage or you will have the entire bill because of loss of insurance.  Even after a successful transplant there are months of weekly doctor visits and a life time of expensive medicines to buy.

It is overwhelming to say the least.  We want to help and you can too. 

The Miracle ride, in memory of our daughter Savannah Faith, is a fun easy way to be a blessing.  We pray that our limited efforts will be blessed by God's unlimited power and lives will be changed. 

Savannah's gift changed lives.  Both her kidneys and her liver were placed.  She also donated heart valves and eye tissue.  We haven't heard from the kidney recipients but we got to meet with her liver recipient Alexis.  A beautiful girl was 18 months old and near death at the time of the transplant.  Now she is healthy happy and just full of life.

This is a testament to what can happen when people just do the right thing.  A child who was almost 2 years old at the time was facing death.  Her parents would never see her swing, or ride a bike or just run around playing with her friends on the playground.  A father would never know the joy of being greeted by his daughter running to him with open arms yelling Daddy...Daddy!  A mother would never know the joy of dying Easter eggs or baking cookies with the daughter she loves more than life.  They would both lay down their own lives to give this angel back hers but they can't.  It takes someone else.  It takes you! 

Do the right thing with the life God gave you.  Give life.  Ride with us to make a difference and become an organ donor yourself. 

Savannah Faith Miracle Ride  

The mission is to help those in need of solid organ transplant and to promote organ donation. 

Please help us make it better. 

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