Dee doo dee doo!
Is it just me or does everyone think it is sometimes impossible to deny the supernatural?
I went to Maleny yesterday and was asked by a lady to tell the story on the air today of Linda Birtish, an American artist who literally gave herself away.
This is a true story, taken from the American 20 20 program.
Linda was primarily an art teacher. When she was28, however, she began to get severe headaches. Her doctors discovered that she had an enormous brain tumor. They told her that her chances of surviving an operation were about 2 percent. Therefore, rather than operate immediately, they chose to wait for six months.During those six months Linda wrote and drew feverishly. All of her art, except one piece, was shown and sold.
At the end of six months, she had the operation. The night before the operation, she decided to literally give herself away. In case of her death, she wrote a "will," in which she donated all of her body parts to those who needed them more than she would.
Unfortunately, Linda's operation was fatal. Subsequently, her eyes went to an eye bank in Bethesda, Maryland, and from there to a recipient in South Carolina. A young man, age 28, went from darkness to sight. That young man was so profoundly grateful that he wrote to the eye bank thanking them for existing. It was only the second "thank you" that the eye bank had received after giving out in excess of 30,000 eyes!
Furthermore, he said he wanted to thank the family He was given the name of the Birtish family and he decided to fly to see them on Staten Island.
He arrived unannounced and rang the doorbell. Mrs. Birtish was looking at him and said, "you know, I'm sure I've seen you somewhere before, but I don't know where." All of a sudden she remembered. She ran upstairs and pulled out the last picture Linda had ever drawn.
It was a portrait of her ideal man.
The picture was virtually identical to this young man who had received Linda's eyes. Then her mother read the last poem Linda had written on her deathbed.
It read:Two hearts passing in the night falling in lovenever able to gain each other's sight.
I went to Maleny yesterday and was asked by a lady to tell the story on the air today of Linda Birtish, an American artist who literally gave herself away.
This is a true story, taken from the American 20 20 program.
Linda was primarily an art teacher. When she was28, however, she began to get severe headaches. Her doctors discovered that she had an enormous brain tumor. They told her that her chances of surviving an operation were about 2 percent. Therefore, rather than operate immediately, they chose to wait for six months.During those six months Linda wrote and drew feverishly. All of her art, except one piece, was shown and sold.
At the end of six months, she had the operation. The night before the operation, she decided to literally give herself away. In case of her death, she wrote a "will," in which she donated all of her body parts to those who needed them more than she would.
Unfortunately, Linda's operation was fatal. Subsequently, her eyes went to an eye bank in Bethesda, Maryland, and from there to a recipient in South Carolina. A young man, age 28, went from darkness to sight. That young man was so profoundly grateful that he wrote to the eye bank thanking them for existing. It was only the second "thank you" that the eye bank had received after giving out in excess of 30,000 eyes!
Furthermore, he said he wanted to thank the family He was given the name of the Birtish family and he decided to fly to see them on Staten Island.
He arrived unannounced and rang the doorbell. Mrs. Birtish was looking at him and said, "you know, I'm sure I've seen you somewhere before, but I don't know where." All of a sudden she remembered. She ran upstairs and pulled out the last picture Linda had ever drawn.
It was a portrait of her ideal man.
The picture was virtually identical to this young man who had received Linda's eyes. Then her mother read the last poem Linda had written on her deathbed.
It read:Two hearts passing in the night falling in lovenever able to gain each other's sight.
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