So today is the 2 year anniversary of my brothers death

petrocs

and Im extremely depressed. I miss him so much. Makes me so angry to think about since he needed a liver transplant and was #1 on the donor list and not a single liver was available for over a month! Makes you really understand the true need for people to be organ donors. You never know who you might be saving. He left behind a wife, a daughter and son. Today please play my brothers favorite song, "Release" and just hug your brother, sister, mother, father, best friend, wife, husband, whomever and tell them you love them.
If you're not an organ donor please think about being one. If you are, please make sure your family knows your wishes, cause they can override your reuqest. If you know nothing about it...read up

http://www.donors1.org/

under become a donor there are FAQ's

I love you guys

QuarterToTen

very sorry for your loss.

thanks for the link.

josevolution

dude really sorry to read that and yes i'm a registered donor please accept my sympathy :( i hope one day it will all be better ....

Stone Is God

Sorry to hear that. My sister will have been gone for 8 years in November. I was 24 and she was 28 and we were close. I was a wreck for a long time. I think about her often. It was kind of upsetting when I got married a month ago that she wasn't there but I believe that she was there in spirit. Stay strong.

Fifthelement

I'm so sorry for the loss of your brother. I will definitely play Release in his memory.
{{{hugs}}} to you.

decides2dream

i am so deeply sorry for your family's loss, how utterly tragic. i cannot even imagine losing one of my sisters. :(


and you are soooo right about organ donors! sooo needed! i am a registered organ donor, as is my sister and my mom. i have to remind hubby to do the same.


hearts & thoughts.........

PureandEasy

My thoughts are with you.

I hope you don’t mind if I hijack your thread a little here. I am on the list for organ donorship. I am also on the list for bone marrow donorship.

And I am a regular blood donor.

I can not stress the importance of donating blood. These transplant surgeries alone often require hundeds of blood products, and just as without an available organ, if the blood products are not available, it could cause delays in transplanting a life saving organ to someone who desperately needs it.

To those of you out there considering becoming an organ donor, also consider becoming a blood donor. Every donation helps at least three people.

Thanks for listening, and again, Petrocs, my condolences.

FoxyMop

petrocs... my condolences to you ::hugs::

Reminding people about the importance of organ donation is beautiful way to honor his memory.

So many people want to be a donor, but forgot to sign the back of their drivers license. If that's you, go do it now..

"I am myself... like you somehow..."

angelm20

Im so sorry.

All5horizons1991

So sorry for your loss. Wife & I are both registered donors.

CHANGEinWAVES

I'm thinking of you and him...and I'll play release like you requested. I am an organ donor and I encourage my family and friends to be as well. There's no telling who you can help after you're gone.

mfc2006

it would be an honor to play release for both you & your brother tomorrow. i'm so sorry for your loss.

petrocs

Thanks everyone for all your comments...they really mean a lot to me. Pure and Easy not a problem..you are more than welcome and I thank you for adding your comments

Heineken Helen

I'm soooo sorry! It must be absolutely unbearable and I don't know how people get through something like this. I've never gotten over my 9 & 11 year old cousins dying in a fire when I was 9 and I only saw them a few times a year but they're never far from my thoughts and I feel like I need to live as much as I can since they never got the chance. I really can't imagine a sister or brother though I'm really sorry.

On the plus side, I AM a registered organ donor but your post has reminded me that I need to convince others to do the same. I imagine most people who DON'T donate actually wouldn't have minded doing so anyway so I think it's something that maybe doctors could push a bit more.

Lizard

Damn—sorry about that.
I do donate blood and am listed as an organ donor and
am on bone marrow donor list.

Take care~~~~~~

nfanel

i am so sorry to hear that. :(

i'm a registered organ donor. my 19 year old cousin passed away unexpectedly last month from an aneurysm and the only small comfort we had was to think about all of the lives he helped out with the organ donation.

my thoughts are with you!

pearljgirl2010

Sending a hug your way...I hope you can enjoy some good memories and stories of your brother tomorrow, and try to make a better day out of it...

milarso

I'm very sorry to hear about that man.
I hope you can hang in there and get through the day.
I'll play 'release' tomorrow for him at my bar.

Austicman

My thoughts are with bud. Lost my sister two years ago last December and the pain of it can be very raw at times and other times I feel like she's fading from my memory. Such tough thing to deal with.

Peace Brother.

JOEJOEJOE

Petrocs, want to tell us about your brother?

pretext

Take care of yourself tomorrow man. I'll definitely have Release on first thing in the morning. Sorry for your loss.

DewieCox

I've lost a brother, as well. I can only hope that the 2 of you were as great of friends as we were. It's goin on 5 years for me and there are certain things that make me a little emotional. The 2 PJ shows I've seen since, I couldn't keep him out of my mind, and on my birthday every year he would always sneak into my truck and put on the Indy 00 boot on Throw Your Arms Around Me. We were smokin buddies so I never remembered from year to year, but now every year I miss it like crazy.

I'll definitely play Release, for ya, maybe even 2x in a row.

PearlOfAGirl

I'm so sorry for the loss of your brother....

petrocs

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

Petrocs, want to tell us about your brother?

Joe was a great brother, son, and an amazing father and husband. He was the person who most influenced and shaped my life as it is today. Joe was ten years older than me. I was born in 1974 and from an early age I can remember my brother sitting me on the bed in his room and him playing me songs from the Beatles, Stones, Queen, Cheap Trick, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Zep, etc. We grew up 10 years apart but we were the best of friends in every way.
He was always the first to pick me up when I fell and always the last one to leave me when I was done crying. He was...my angel. Joe never yelled at me, he never told me I couldnt do anything, he never discouraged me from being me. Joe loved me for who I was.
Joe loved life. He was the town father to all the kids. We called him Griswold because he had the most lights on the block during Christmas and during Halloween he was the one who had the most decorations..he loved making people smile. No matter HIS mood..as long as you were smiling he was happy. Joe loved his children above all. Megan is now 14 and Joey is now 16. Both are growing up to be spitting images of their father...God I see Joe in Joey more and more every day. He left a lasting impression on everyone he met.
Joe and I spent most of the last 25 years going to concerts. We saw U2 in 87 at JFK when Bono asked, "Does anyone want to play my guitar? Bruce Spingsteen..do you wanna play me guitar?" before breaking into Stand By Me (A moment that still gives me chills), We saw the Amnesty Internation concert, where Joe stuffed me full of beers to sneak in cause..they would never search a 10 year old..right Joe? and many more that are too many to mention.
Then it was my turn to turn Joe on to music...Pearl Jam, Oasis, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Black Crowes to name a few...it was almost like a rebirth for Joe musically...Pearl Jam most of all. We would spend the next 15 years touring around the country seeing the boys from Seattle. We never missed a tour. Joe always paid.
Fast forward to 2004. Joe is diagnosed with Hepatits C. Joes liver is growing worse everyday. Prognosis is that he will need a liver trasnplant at some point. The family starts to research, we visit different hospitals, doctors, anyone who would talk to us. We knew it was going to be tough. We knew it was going to test our wills...and it did. Joe always stayed positive and made everyone feel that no matter what everything would be the way he wanted it..always the positive one.
Financially Joe and Dianne were taking a hit. Joe couldnt work because of his condition, social security wasnt enough, Dianne had to work, take care of Joe and take care of the kids..the family pitched it. I could see the whole thing taking a toll on Joe. I knew what to do. I bought tickets for the U2's Vertigo tour at the Meadowlands in NJ..Joe was sick that day, like everyday anymore, but he wanted to go. Once the lights went down the light in Joes eyes came to life..the emotion of the moment got the best of him and he started to cry. He turned to me and said he loved me.
Over the next year I wanted to repay him for all the shows he had taken me to. We went to see all the bands he loved..Bob Dylan, Coldplay, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Radiohead. Then came Oasis at MSG. I drove down to pick Joey and Joe up to go. I got there and Joe was in bed. He was too weak to go. To see him this way broke me. I said none of us would go. He got angry. He sat up and told me,"You take my son and you get out of here..go!" I left with Joey and we went to the show. We left the empty seat open.
Joe began to get worse..the trip to the hosptial went from a day to a week. We all would wait..pray..that Joe would be added to the donors list, get to the top, get a liver and be better. Through it all Joe would try and stay himself..making the nurses laugh, keeping his family in check, all the while knowing what he was facing. Night after night one of us would sleep in that hospital..next to Joe. Waiting for an answer. Time after time Joe would get better to be discharged and we would take him home.
In the spring of 2006 I got a call from Joe, "Bro..PJ..Camden..we're there!" I said, "absolutely..and its on me" fast forward to night 2..encore 1..Black followed by Crazy Mary followed by Alive..my brother hands raised to the sky singing every beautiful word..then..out of nowhere...I heard him say, "Thank you Eddie" I knew right then that Joe knew he would never see them again. On February 11th, 2007 after waiting almost 3 years and finally making it to the top of the donor list, Joe passed away waiting for a donor to be found. The world that day became a whole lot darker. But we carry on..in memory of Joe..to make a difference like he did. So we fight and we educate people about organ donation and we remember..we remember Joe..and I know..Joes up there watching..and he's at every concert..and he doesnt have to pay...so I say to him now.."Can you see me now/I am myself/Like you somehow/I'll ride the wave/Where it takes me/I'll hold the pain/Release Me" RIP my dear sweet brother.

PureandEasy

Oh my God, what a nice tribute to your brother. It’s sounds as though he was one of a kind. This made me cry. I was at a lot of those shows too, beginning with the U2 show when Bruce showed up.

Thanks for giving us a glimpse of who your brother was.

petrocs

PureandEasy wrote:

Oh my God, what a nice tribute to your brother. It’s sounds as though he was one of a kind. This made me cry. I was at a lot of those shows too, beginning with the U2 show when Bruce showed up.

Thanks for giving us a glimpse of who your brother was.

Thanks for reading...I added a picture of Joe and his family

pearljgirl2010

nothing like a good cry in the morning...that was beautiful. it sounds like your brother was one of those truly special people who touched everyone he met...you were lucky to have him, and I'm sure he was proud to have you for a brother too. take care today, and throw on that camden show...

The Juggler

im so sorry man...cant imagine what it would be like if either of my brother's would pass...makes me appreciate them even more now.

PureandEasy

very nice picture, lovely family.

It seems as though we've gone to a lot of the same shows over the years.

I come from a big family (two brothers, two sisters) and I can't even imagine your pain.

take care.

petrocs

pearljgirl2010 wrote:

nothing like a good cry in the morning...that was beautiful. it sounds like your brother was one of those truly special people who touched everyone he met...you were lucky to have him, and I'm sure he was proud to have you for a brother too. take care today, and throw on that camden show...

started playing it at 8am. reached Black and had to leave work :(

Beck..

Sorry for your loss
Il play that tune tomorrow for him
take care dude