Hello to all and Merry Christmas!
I thought I would share a story that JUST happened. Since Becca woke this morning around 5am to see what Santa had left, and I went to sleep sometime around midnight....I was taking the traditional Christmas late afternoon nap on the sofa after all the family had gone home. I woke up and no more than 5 minutes later the door bell rings. It was a neighbor and old friend of the family with a man I had never seen before. This stranger said his name and I thought what a great surprise! It was the father of a young man (26yrs old) who had a myectomy at Cleveland Clinic a few weeks ago!!
The world being small and my neighborhood even smaller... here is how we met. When I was a teenager I use to baby sit for Johns daughter Katie, then John became my "copier guy" at Packard, then he helped the HCMA get its first copy machine. John has attended every golf outing we have held and has learned a bit about HCM along the way. 2 years ago on Thanksgiving morning my phone rang and it was John. He said his cousins son had HCM and could I help them. I gave him all my contact numbers and said to have them call whenever they needed to. The phone did not ring for sometime... then about several months ago I received a call from father and son. It seems that symtoms were progressing and the gradient was high, myectomy seemed to be in order. Off to Cleveland (Lever) they went with wonderful follow up care in NYC (Sherrid). The myectomy was 4 weeks ago and today he is at home recovering, some minor a/f (2 episodes, short lived)and some pain with a good sneeze but other than that all is well.
Today his dad knocked on my door to say hello and let me know all went well. What a wonderful end to Christmas and what a wonderful gift they have given me! I will let them share there names if they wish... but I wanted to share their story!
Peace to all this Christmas Day!
Lisa
I thought I would share a story that JUST happened. Since Becca woke this morning around 5am to see what Santa had left, and I went to sleep sometime around midnight....I was taking the traditional Christmas late afternoon nap on the sofa after all the family had gone home. I woke up and no more than 5 minutes later the door bell rings. It was a neighbor and old friend of the family with a man I had never seen before. This stranger said his name and I thought what a great surprise! It was the father of a young man (26yrs old) who had a myectomy at Cleveland Clinic a few weeks ago!!
The world being small and my neighborhood even smaller... here is how we met. When I was a teenager I use to baby sit for Johns daughter Katie, then John became my "copier guy" at Packard, then he helped the HCMA get its first copy machine. John has attended every golf outing we have held and has learned a bit about HCM along the way. 2 years ago on Thanksgiving morning my phone rang and it was John. He said his cousins son had HCM and could I help them. I gave him all my contact numbers and said to have them call whenever they needed to. The phone did not ring for sometime... then about several months ago I received a call from father and son. It seems that symtoms were progressing and the gradient was high, myectomy seemed to be in order. Off to Cleveland (Lever) they went with wonderful follow up care in NYC (Sherrid). The myectomy was 4 weeks ago and today he is at home recovering, some minor a/f (2 episodes, short lived)and some pain with a good sneeze but other than that all is well.
Today his dad knocked on my door to say hello and let me know all went well. What a wonderful end to Christmas and what a wonderful gift they have given me! I will let them share there names if they wish... but I wanted to share their story!
Peace to all this Christmas Day!
Lisa
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