vacations

17 Jun Discharge!

Posted at 12:45h in Colleen, family, health, life, marriage, reflections, travel, vacations by pkuzma 0 Comments

0 Likes

Colleen was discharged from the hospital just a few minutes ago! After continued conversation with the doctors, we are staying close by for the next two days just in case any symptoms flare up, and have been instructed to keep her exertion low. Interestingly, the...

16 Jun Still Feeling Well But Not Out The Woods

Posted at 10:28h in Colleen, family, life, marriage, reflections, travel, vacations by pkuzma 0 Comments

0 Likes

Colleen is feeling much better today, reporting much less windedness with activity and no residual chest pain. THAT’S amazing! However, the cardiologist and treating physician came in this morning and have decided to NOT discharge Colleen from the hospital today. Cardiologist cautioned against taking this circumstance...

15 Jun I Almost Missed A Miracle

Posted at 22:34h in Colleen, family, health, life, marriage, reflections, travel, vacations by pkuzma 2 Comments

0 Likes

Just want to thank everyone for all of the love and support we’ve received over the last 24 hours since we arrived here in Seattle! It would take too much time to go into all the emails, texts, FB messages and wall posts and blog...

15 Jun Another Update on Colleen

Posted at 10:30h in Colleen, family, health, life, marriage, travel, vacations by pkuzma 3 Comments

0 Likes

Well, they just changed their mind! The main cardiologist just came in and said that because we are seeing symptom improvement in the last 24 hours with medication therapy, he wants to stay away from doing the invasive procedure if we don’t have to. So, they...

15 Jun Update on Colleen

Posted at 10:04h in Colleen, family, health, life, marriage, travel, vacations by pkuzma 1 Comment

0 Likes

Just got the news that they’ve determined it will be needed to drain the fluid from the sac around the heart. They are making arrangements to do that within the next few hours. They will leave a drainage tube in for a couple of days...

14 Jun The Cruise That Almost Was

Posted at 23:13h in Colleen, health, life, rest, travel, vacations by pkuzma 3 Comments

0 Likes

I am writing from, of all places, downtown Seattle, Washington….NOT a place we had planned to stop when we left last Wednesday with some very good friends for San Francisco, where we spent the night. On Thursday, we boarded the Sea Princess and sailed for...

24 Nov A Happy Thanksgiving

Posted at 14:30h in family, gastroparesis, health, kids, life, travel, vacations by pkuzma 0 Comments

0 Likes

I am writing this post from Lincoln, CA, where one of my wife's brother's owns 40 acres. He and his wife built a home on it about 2 years ago. Their place is central to where Colleen's parents and siblings live, so it's perfect for a...

05 Apr Easter Earthquake & Spring Break

Posted at 17:19h in Chron's disease, church, Easter, family, health, Jonathan, Joshua, kids, life, rest, Uncategorized, vacations by pkuzma 0 Comments

0 Likes

I didn't feel it because the boys and I were on the freeway toward Indio, but what a wild thing to have an earthquake on Easter! What a great reminder that we are NOT in control of life around us and that anything can happen...

09 Mar Wherever You Go, There You Are

Posted at 16:19h in family, life, marriage, ministry, pace of life, relationship, rest, travel, vacations by pkuzma 2 Comments

0 Likes

The last two days have been a bit hard to get my mind around. Colleen and I are at El Capitan Canyon, north of Santa Barbara. We left around 3:30 Sunday afternoon. I drove from home to one of our favorite produce stands in Somis....

13 Jan Last I Left You …

Posted at 05:09h in family, life, Sunday, Texas road trip, travel, vacations by pkuzma 1 Comment

0 Likes

We were 12 hours into a cross-country trip in a 34 ' RV with 4 adults and 4 kids. The trip went well, except for one thing. Hours, maybe even minutes, after posting that update, I began to feel the chills. I was soon in the...