Just got my first turndown for SSDI

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

29. Yes, it was rough.

He was incredibly cheerful and upbeat about the whole thing. Several years ago I was visiting him (he lived in Tucson) and I went to his pharmacy to pick up some prescriptions. The young lady who gave them to me told me how wonderful he was, how always happy and friendly. I thanked her, and told her that I was likewise in awe of his attitude. I don't think I'd have been as good if something like that happened to me.

He was also on kidney dialysis for several years, and then got a kidney from a living donor. My brother died last year, some 16 years after that donation. We found his donor's FB page and posted on it that he'd died and we were so very much appreciative that her donation had given him 16 years of life. For a year we never heard back from her. Turns out she rarely checks her FB page, but chose to do so on Christmas Day, and saw our post. She got in touch, and both I and my sister were able to speak with her. It was joyous, because we wanted so much for her to know what her donation meant.

Her donation was an example of The Kindness of Strangers.