A Long-Expected Party 2: There & Back Again, Another Glimpse at Perfection

I’m back from A Long Expected Party 2: There & Back Again at Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.  I had a brilliant time. A Look Backward at ALEP 1 Three years ago, I wrote that the first ALEP was one of the top 5 weekends of my life.  It was a magical experience.  For […]

Happy to Be Home

A week and a half after her cardiac incarceration, Kenzie came home today. She’s doing great. Her big chest incision is healed up. She’s smiling and happy. And of course, we are thrilled! Thanks again to everyone who sent their love, prayers, and even money. We really appreciate it! You are amazing. Thank you! Thank […]

Kenzie’s Heart Surgery Update

It’s been a long week. Over the past few days, Gwen and I patiently waited with baited breath for Kenzie to get better from her heart surgery last Monday. She has slowly improved each day. They started feeding her two days ago, which was a huge triumph. Then they found that she was accumulating a […]

Kenzie’s Second Heart Surgery Needed

Just when we are hopeful we can go home from the hospital, we learn we can’t yet. Yesterday, I mentioned the cardiac catherization. We learned that the blood passageway to the left lung is a bit small. With time, that will become smaller. So the doctors decided this morning that Kenzie will have another heart […]

Heart Surgery Stories

by John M. Gunn You meet all kinds of people when you have a relative in a hospital. During my mothers recent visit to the hospital for surgery I talked with lots of people who had relatives in the hospital. One such person was a woman from Magnolia Arkansas. Her husband had 5 by-pass surgery […]