Yesterday afternoon (1-24-08) was the second outpatient visit with the doctor. Everything is still pretty much the same. Still WAITING. Ken's health is hanging in there. They took him off the blood thinning medication and plan to put him in the cardiac rehab three times a week just to keep him in an active state. The healthier and stronger he is at the time of transplant will only be in his favor. We were out walking the streets on Wednesday when Ken received a call from a recent heart transplant recipient. It was a very encouraging call that helped us find some hope in all of this waiting. He told Ken that whatever his expectations were for feeling better he should at least triple that expectation. WOW!!! That is just like God - giving us more than we are expecting.
We have had to make some hard decisions since this all started and we have had to make another one. I am going to be going home tomorrow evening and leaving Ken here in Baltimore. We have done everything we know to do for getting him immediate help and as always it is all in God's hands. After transplant there will be an extended stay so right now we believe I need to go work for a while and take care of the home front. We have such amazing family and friends taking care of what they can now - PRAISE GOD - but there are always those things you just have to take care of yourself. Please pray for me especially at this time. I know this is what God is telling me to do but I still have such a heaviness in my heart leaving him here. As always in a waiting period you just don't know when the next phase will come so we covet your prays as well in my getting back here in a timely manner when the "Call" comes.
The journey still continues and we could never express adequately how much your prayers, cards, e-mails and calls mean to us. Thank you for hanging in there with us as we WAIT and WATCH God continue His work in our lives.
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