When I glanced back at what my last blog post was about, I saw the title “Heart Surgery Week Recap.” While I thought that was a post of the past, in God’s eyes, it was the just beginning of a new story and journey for us. If I knew that I would be in a…
This past week has been unlike any other and surely one for the books! If you have been following our journey recently, some of this is going to be repetitive and possibly boring, but one reason I blog is for the personal journal aspect of it. For me, much of life is about looking back…
I honestly cannot believe I am sitting here, one week later. The time has flown. After this past weekend, I was anticipating an extremely long road to recovery. I still am in a sense, but I feel like I can do this. I’m sure you know the feeling. Just look back at each day this…
Last Thursday, I remember typing up my “Until Next Time…” post, realizing that the next time I’d blog, it would be with a reconstructed and healthy heart. And now I sit here, doing that very thing. To be able to sit here and tell you that GOD has healed my heart through the hands of…
The time has come. Sixteen years of wondering when the next surgery would be. Sixteen years of life events that have led us to a moment, such as this. Sixteen years of waiting for open heart surgery #2. I have thought often of what that day was like on Wednesday, January 17, 2001. It was…
This is probably not the cloud you are thinking of. This past weekend in Michigan, was filled with many fall clouds and rain, as the Sterks became more and more antsy to get outside. I sometimes wonder how we get through the long winter months! But I’m not talking about actual cloud cover. I’m talking…
