I left for work on Monday, heading to Alpine on a train. Tuesday, the phone rang at 3 am for me to catch a train back home. Amanda and I had chatted a bit once I was off, and I dropped the ‘let’s drive all the way in one day’ on her. Our original plan…

Prayer and fasting are the focus of this post. I’ve only called for fasting once before on Amanda’s health journey. Monday, February 16th, is the day I’m asking our friends and faith family to intercede on Amanda’s behalf. A very pointed prayer to wake her kidneys up and stave off a kidney transplant altogether. Not…

Once back home, we had a bit of a break, not before getting Texas dialysis up and going, though. We arrived Friday evening, and Amanda had dialysis on Saturday. It was in a clinic 30 miles away in Del Rio, a town we frequent. While she was in dialysis, I went to the Roses, who…

Before I get to our departure from Nashville, let me catch you up. We were just going through the motions after the holidays, getting back in the groove with Amandas PT and Rehab schedules. It was taking a lot to get things lined up with dialysis back in Texas. We were also trying to get…

I wrote this post yesterday while Amanda was having a biopsy, but I forgot to post it. We got the results back this afternoon—zero R, which is the lowest level of rejection: virtually none. We had things that hinged on whether these results came back favorable. Read on to see what that means for us. …

Well, it’s been a minute! All of you who get antsy, remember: no news is good news in the medical journal. As for the travel journal, it’s the opposite! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. We had a great lead-up to Christmas week and were able to enjoy living in Nashville for…

I’ve owed yall this one for a while, it’s all about the kidneys. We knew the kidneys may be an issue early on. Back in Texas, a new cardiologist mentioned doing a dual heart-kidney transplant. The head of the Methodist heart transplant program right away said Amanda would need kidneys when we had our initial…

I just realized I haven’t posted a follow-up on Amanda’s biopsy. If you follow us on the socials, you know we got good news because I posted there and forgot to post anything here, sorry! It was around lunch that I figured we might hear something on Friday, but we still hadn’t heard from Adrienne,…

For Advent, I have been reading Luke. One chapter a day will have you ending on Christmas Eve if you start on December 1. I also started John a little later, but keeping the same rhythm, I’ll finish at the same time. I have been using John as my morning study. I typically read until…

Sunday, it was good to be back at church. While back in Texas, I’d missed every Sunday being at work. Amanda hadn’t made it to our Sunday school class while I was gone and had only made a couple of services, too. Everyone was glad to see us both there and back together. This Nashville…