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Heart Surgery Week Recap

Heart Surgery Week Recap

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…

One Week Later

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…

A New Heart

A New Heart

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…

Until Next Time…

Until Next Time…

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…

Surrounded By A Great Cloud

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…