Jim Awaiting Liver Transplant - Possibly Tonight

[Cow Poke]

I visited Jim and Diane this afternoon. It was the very first time I EVER saw Jim HEALTHY and alert and sitting up and making jokes and laughing - no tubes, no wires...

He's in the rehab section now, so his new doctor popped in, took a quick look at Jim, stepped out into the hallway and checked the name on the wall, then stepped back in rather incredulous, looking at Jim's chart, and asked "what are you in here for?" Jim answered "liver transplant". The doctor asked "WHEN?" Jim replied "12 days ago". The doctor was stunned. It was obvious he wasn't putting it on... he seemed genuinely stunned that Jim was sitting up in a chair, laughing and telling jokes, and talking about "going to my Church and meeting my new family for the first time".

August 4 is the day Jim is scheduled to be released from the Hospital to go home.
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[Cow Poke]

Just talked to Diane - Sparko reminded me - and Jim is cleared by everybody except the surgical team, but they want him to wait til Friday. He's still doing really really well, but his OP and PT are going so good they want him to keep that up a few more days, and he can skip the next phase of therapy. He won't make it to Church THIS Sunday, probably, but next Sunday almost for sure!

[Teallaura]

[Sparko]

[LostSheep]

[Cow Poke]

Elvis has LEFT the building! Jim left the hospital yesterday, and will spend a couple nights at a hotel near the hospital, then go HOME!!!! Thanks for all your prayers. Pictures will be posted in the next couple days.

This is a man I've known for a year who has gone downhill - gotten closer to death's door - every day I've known him until a couple weeks ago when he got his transplant.

God is SO good!

[rogue06]

Indeed God is good

[Teallaura]

[LostSheep]

Is tomorrow the day Jim and Diane join you at the service at your church, CP?

[Cow Poke]

Is tomorrow the day Jim and Diane join you at the service at your church, CP?

Jim came home Thursday afternoon, and YES!!!! They are planning to be in Church in the morning!

It will be Jim's first time in Church in over a YEAR, and the first time EVER at our Church!!!!!

[LostSheep]

[Teallaura]

Wonderful!










This is the first time I have Iiterally written a post .

[Cow Poke]

What an absolutely amazing and glorious morning!

Jim and Diane texted and let me know that they would probably come in after the song service, because Jim couldn't sit very long.

I had advised the congregation he would be coming in, and gave a brief summary of the situation for the visitors who were in attendance.

After one of our couples presented the "special music" - a duet - "He Touched Me", Jim and Diane appeared at the main entrance. The congregation stood and began clapping - a resounding standing ovation - as Jim walked up the isle to me with no walker and no assistance. I remember him hugging me, and I remember it lasted quite a while, and the Church continued clapping.

Diane had typed a letter for me to read, because she knew she would not be able to do it without blubbering and crying.

It was an incredible morning.

One of our first time visitors, an older gentleman and his wife, told me after Church --- "Wow, people talk about 'doing church' but you guys ARE Church!" It's not about us - it's about the love of Jesus that was everywhere in that room this morning, and Jim praising God for 'another lease on life'.

God is so good!

[LostSheep]

God and His Son be praised!!

[Cow Poke]