Author: Kristin Sterk

As a Christ-follower, wife, stay at home mom, blogger, author, and advanced heart failure patient, my desire is to encourage others in those same roles, through honest and real conversation. May you be inspired to embrace YOUR story of God’s grace in your own life, through simple, grace-filled living.
Life Back Home

Life Back Home

As you can about imagine, it feels so good to be home! To just be in the same household, eating at the same table together, hearing my family’s voices, it’s all been such a gift. Even though home is exactly where I want to be, it hasn’t always been easy. A bone marrow transplant brings…

The End Is In Sight!

The End Is In Sight!

Sort of… BUT WHEN IT COMES TO BEING IN THE HOSPITAL, THE END IS IN SIGHT! The goal for tomorrow is for me to be DISCHARGED! To say I am excited would be an understatement! I haven’t seen Mazy in almost 3 weeks and that, by far, has been the toughest part of this journey….

BMT Day +7!

BMT Day +7!

It feels so good to get to this day. It’s been a hard day, but a day that reminds me that I am one step closer to discharge. Today my counts have bottomed out, which is where they would expect them to be in this stage of the game. When counts bottom out, the only…

BMT Day +3!

BMT Day +3!

The hospital I am at, started a new therapy within the last month, called “red light therapy”. Maybe you have heard of it or even have a machine at home, but this is one of the many tools used to help manage bone marrow transplant side effects, such as mucositis (sores in mouth). Who knew?…