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By JAN LAVALLEY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
You’re lying in a hospital bed, listening to your heartbeat, trying to breath through the fluid building up in your lungs, nauseous from the pressure of blood build up in your liver because your heart is not pumping the way it should and wondering which breath will be your last.
You have congestive heart failure and you’re waiting, like thousands of others for a donor heart.
Charles Embrey, of Flint Hill, knows how that feels — he’s now number three on the transplant list for a donor heairt at Fairfax Transplant Center, Fairfax Hospital.
This week is National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week and this year its message, from Virginia’s’ Organ Procurement Agency hits close to home. That message is awareness — stressing the importance of education about donating organs and talking about it to your family.
Ruth White, Mr. Embrey’s sister and the force behind a fundraising campaign to raise necessary funds for the transplant and after care, agrees that people need to know more about organ donation.
“It’s important to be aware of the issue of organ donation and to talk to your family about it if you think you want to be an organ donor,” she said. “The IRS sent out Uniform Donor Cards with taxes this year in order to try and help people understand the importance of planning ahead. It helps avoid confusion later."
Organ and tissue donation saves literally thousands of lives each year and is a chance to gift someone else with a medical miracle.
The Rappahannock News first reported on Mr. Embrey’s condition in February. Mr. Embrey had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure
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