Our fall was consumed by caring for Jon's dad - he has had liver disease for 19 years and his health really began to decline this summer. By the end of the summer, it was clear that he was going to need a liver transplant in order to live (he is only 64). We felt it was really important to get him and my mother-in-law out of their home because of the amount of stairs there were to navigate - also, we weren't sure what his care-giving situation was going to be like and we needed him in a handicap accessible place. We really pulled together as a family and quickly found a place for them to live and moved them out of their home of 37 years. That was in early September. On October 8th, after only officially being on the liver transplant list for 2 weeks and 4 days, we got the call that a liver was available! The surgery was successful and the recovery has been amazing. We are so grateful to God for granting us more time with him and extremely thankful to the donor and his family for their sacrifice (the liver he received was from a 75 year old man who had died - we did not receive additional details).
This is a picture of our kids with their Pop-Pop on his birthday (September 16th) - he was in the hospital for several weeks and was released shortly after this picture was taken to wait at home for the call for a transplant.
It was quite the experience to go through as a family and really brought us all closer to each other. I don't really have any pictures from much else over the months of September/October because we pretty much lived and breathed this situation and didn't have time for much else.
At the end of October, my sister Darla and her little girl Ella came for a visit, so I will do a post of that and then I'll be pretty much up to date and will try to stay more on top of my blog now!
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