Today I celebrate 3 months with my new kidney!!
I am so thankful for this new opportunity given to me by God. I am also thankful for the family who allowed their 24 year old daughter to donate the kidney. Please continue to keep them in your thoughts and prayers. It is now three months for them that they have had to live without their daughter, who passed suddenly and tragically. This next week, our family will be sending them cards of thanks.
Would you all do me a favor? Write notes of encouragement and thanks to her family in the comment box below. You have been such an encouragement to us, perhaps you can be to them as well. Many of you know how I have struggled for more than a decade with this kidney issue. It’d be great to share the ways you’ve seen that and how this new kidney will change my life.
Thanks!
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To the most gracious family who allowed their daughter’s kidney to be donated to save the life of Wes Coddington. We pray for you as you continue to grieve a young daughter taken away from you much too early. We lost a 24 year-old son-in-law in an accident, so we can feel your pain in losing your daughter. To think of another person in the midst of your extreme grief and shock shows the compassion and caring of your family, but also your desire to have your daughter’s legacy live on by giving life to another. Words cannot express the gratitude of the family and friends of Wes.
We need to tell you first hand that Wes is wonderful recipient of this scarificial gift. Your gift of a new kidney allows Wes to continue to be the husband, father, son, brother and gifted Christian leader, who impacts many lives. Wes’ upbeat spirit and love for the Lord is contagious and is used to inspire others.
May God bless your family and may He walk beside you in your journey of healing. The pain doesn’t go away, but it gets bearable in time. Many will be praying for you.
In His grace,
Eleanor & Rich Dunlap
The gift of life that your daughters sacrifice gave to my nephew is just amazing. It is tha most wonderful thing for you to do in the middle of a time of grief. It reminds me of the gift that Jesus gave us when he died on the cross for our sins. He took our sin on Him and gave the gift of eternal life to all who believe in Him.
As Wesley’s Aunt, I know what a wonderful, most precious man your daughter’s sacrifce has saved. I am sure that Wesley, his wife and three young children will be forever grateful.
I thank you for your ability to say yes to the transplant when you were greiving for your daughter. I pray for you each day and thank God for your thoughtfulness. I pray that your grief will turn to joy in knowing that part of your daughter will continue to thrive in a most wonderful man, husband and father. Your daughters legacy will live on though Wesley. She will forever be a part of our family as well as yours. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
May the peace of God be with you.
With much love and gratitude,
Wesley’s Aunt Sharon
It must be hard to think of your daughter’s death as being part of a miracle. I am Wes’ aunt and a while ago God gave me to understand that Wes would experience a miracle in relation to his kidney. I had no idea what that would mean, just that it would be. Since death for one who knows God is not as we perceive it but the entrance to a life in God’s presence. Among the feelings of grief and loss, I hope that her family also rests in the belief that God works all things for the good of those who belong to Him. We thank you for that miracle and pray that God brings peace daily and constantly.
I want to say THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart! I do not know you and I did not know your daughter but I know that she did not lose her life in vain. Her kidney will live on in my brother-in-law Wes who is a father to 3 wonderful kids and a husband to my sister and I know that they all need him here and are very grateful for the gift of your daughters kidney. I have watched Wes go through many difficulties. As a young man who loved to hike, bike, mountain climb, run, play sports etc it was hard to watch him gradually limit these things in his life because of his kidney. He always knew that God had a plan and a reason for all of it…no matter how hard things got he had that same attitude and I know that he will have the opportunity to share w/ many people about how God used your daughter’s kidney to save his life. I’m sorry for your loss and I know that losing your 24 year old daughter is not something any parents should have to endure. Why one life is taken to save another life I’ll never know. The sacrifice you made by offering her kidney to Wes will be remembered by our family ALWAYS! I wish I could take away the sorrow that I know you must feel but only God can give that kind of comfort so I pray that for you!
Thank you so much for your great compassion and kindness in allowing Wes to receive your daughter’s kidney. I have no doubt that you’re daughter was an amazing person, and that losing her must have been indescribably painful. Thank you for thinking of others in the midst of your own deep grief.
I’ve known Wes for about 10 years. Over that time, I saw his energy steadily decrease as his kidney began to get worse and worse. I remember visiting him last summer, and seeing how difficult it was for him not to be able to be more active with his children. I’ve seen how hard it was for him to not be able to carry more of the responsibilities of caring for his family in the ways that so many of us take for granted.
Wes is a person that takes very seriously the importance of investing in others. He loves Jesus deeply, and that love spills over into a real, active, and committed love for other people. I know that as it became more difficult to get out and spend time with people he felt the loss of those opportunities. In short, it was a long hard struggle.
But through all of that, I also saw Wes bravely fight through fatigue and put his relationship with his family first. He used suffering and illness as a means of inspiring and encouraging others. He saw his hospital visits as opportunities to get to know the doctors, nurses, and technicians that worked with him. He made sure that his friends and family were aware of the needs that those people had, and he asked us to pray for them. He was continually thinking of how he could meet the needs of others wherever he was at.
That is the kind of man that your daughter kept alive. Wes is one of my best friends. He’s taught me so much about what it means to have character and integrity, and the value of pouring your life into the life of another as he did mine.
Thank you so much for allowing your daughter’s legacy to continue through Wes. I pray that the God of all comfort would comfort you as you grieve for your daughter, and that you would be encouraged by the huge amount of good she has accomplished in the lives of so many.
May you sense the presence of the All Mighty God, Creator of the Universe, now and always. Your daughter’s life was precious to Him. So precious that He spread His love from her to Wes, through whom He spreads love and power to so many others. Our God, The Great I Am, YHWH, reaches out to each of us. What a glorious blessing your daughter’s life and legacy is! All Praise to YHWH!!!!!
I just don’t have any words that could bring comfort to you for the loss of your sweet daughter. All I do know is that God does not make any mistakes. Her life, as short as it may have been, has blessed so many people. Her gift to Wes is immeasurable. Thank you.
I don’t know how God moved you to donate your daughter’s kidney at such a great time of grief in your own life, but I do know you must be a very caring person. Her kidney could not have gone to a better person who will continue to make good use of the life it has given him.
Each time he speaks about God and His Love she will be a part of it.She will be a silent partner with him for the rest of his life.
We who watch and hear him speak are grateful to you for your compassion and priviledged to see a living mircale.
Praying for your healing in your time of grief. God Bless you!!!