Karen on August 31st, 2010

About mid-June, I received an email from Abby Scklarek that began:  “I just read the article in Parents Magazine and I knew I had to get in touch with you…”  It turns out Abby has a one-year-old son, Colin, who also has scimitar syndrome.  She shared with me that he would need heart surgery sometime [...]

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Karen on August 28th, 2010

Angie from Yukon, Oklahoma writes: My daughter just went in on Thursday August 26, 2010 to have the catherization surgery to close her ASD but when they got in they found out that it wasn’t the kind that could be closed that way.  They also found that she had the Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return [...]

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Karen on August 17th, 2010

[This is a re-run of a post from last year.  Today is the 41st anniversary of Hurricane Camille.] August of 1969 could be described as a month of turmoil and rebellion.  The Vietnam War was in full swing, provoking protests in the streets and heated disagreements at the dinner table.  The infamous Charles Manson cult [...]

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Karen on August 3rd, 2010

Needing a little on-the-road encouragement, I purchased “WOW Gospel 2010” a few months ago.  Thirty of the most popular songs of gospel radio are in this collection, and I have enjoyed them all. But there’s one song in particular that I find myself playing over and over–Fred Hammond‘s “They That Wait,” which turns Isaiah 40:31 [...]

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