Posts Tagged ‘Eva Markvoort’
Eva
I have been reading a friends blog for the past few weeks and have been wanting to write about it. I got to know Eva in the last year and have been quite astonished by her. She has cystic fibrosis and while on the wait list for a lung transplant she was told that she has two years to live.
Two of her friends and UBC film grads began documenting her wait and the resulting film, “65 Red Roses” played at the Hot Docs Festival, took the best Canadian film award in the Vancouver Film Festival and went on to air on CBC.
In the film, she does receive the Lung Transplant in time and made a recovery. She even made it out to our first No More Strangers night last year.
But since then, her condition has deteriorated as her body rejects the donor lungs.
She is again on the donor list but extremely ill and hospitalized.
An avid blogger and part of the online CF community, she has attracted a world wide audience who tunes into her site. On February 11th she posted a goodbye video with her family in her hospital bed explaining that she only has a few days left to live.
She has managed to fight on.
Her site is one of the most inspiring, humbling and heartfelt things I have ever witnessed and if your up for balling your eyes out, do check it out, it’s worth it.
There have been many positives that she has managed to make out of such a negative thing. One of the most important is donor awareness, as I have learned BC has one of the lowest donor rates in the country and you can sign up easily to be a donor online.
NEways, Eva, thank you for all the inspiration.
