{"id":3051,"date":"2026-09-10T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T17:27:08","slug":"the-promise-he-kept-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/?p=3051","title":{"rendered":"The Promise He Kept From Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My husband became an organ donor as his final wish \u2014 after he d*ed, his doctor stopped me and said, \u201cThere\u2019s something<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">he made me promise to give you only after he was gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark and I had been married for three years when I finally became pregnant with the baby we had always wanted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bhp-nextpage-wrap bhp-continue-wrap bhp-nextpage-design_1\">\n<div class=\"bhp-nextpage-intro\">Continue on the next page:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our happiness lasted only six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Mark learned about his illness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center class=\"bhp-adsense-raw bhp-adsense-raw-legacy\"><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The doctors gave him no more than three months to live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He probably wouldn\u2019t live long enough to meet our daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That evening, he settled beside me on our porch with one hand resting on my belly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf my organs are still healthy enough when the time comes, I want them donated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPlease don\u2019t talk about dying while she\u2019s kicking,\u201d I whispered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband became an organ donor as his final wish \u2014 after he d*ed, his doctor stopped me and said,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tastykitchen.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}