18 Jun Many Miracles

Posted at 21:40h in Colleen, family, health, life, marriage, reflections, Starbucks, travel, Uncategorized by pkuzma 0 Comments

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After this long week, it was wonderful to go back to the hotel room WITH Colleen. I've been staying at a place called "The Inn at Virginia Mason", a cool 1920's hotel that is actually physically connected to the Virginia Mason Medical Center that primarily...

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17 Jun Discharge!

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

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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...

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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

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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...

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15 Jun I Almost Missed A Miracle

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

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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...

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15 Jun Another Update on Colleen

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

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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...

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15 Jun Update on Colleen

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

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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...

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23 May Decompression?

Posted at 01:00h in Bipolar Disorder, family, Foursquare Convention, Jonathan, kids, life, marriage, travel by pkuzma 4 Comments

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At the end of what I am considering our "first week" without Jonathan, all seems to be well. While Jonathan has been gone for 8 weeks now, I think of this as our first week because even though he was in Oregon for 5 weeks...

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14 May Headed Home

Posted at 22:20h in Bipolar Disorder, conferences, family, Jonathan, life, ODD, travel by pkuzma 0 Comments

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We loved our time here, especially the little bit of time we got to spend with Jonathan. He seems to be adjusting well, though he is not without his challenges that brought him here. I don't want to give the impression that all was fun...

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13 May Welcome to Utah

Posted at 05:30h in Bipolar Disorder, conferences, family, Jonathan, life, ODD, travel by pkuzma 0 Comments

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  This morning, Colleen and I took a flight to Salt Lake City, Utah, arriving about 12:30 (MDT), an hour ahead of PDT in CA. We're here for our first "Parent Weekend" at Heritage School in Provo. Jonathan has been here since I dropped him off...

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29 Apr Time Warp, Part 6

Posted at 23:25h in Bipolar Disorder, family, Jonathan, Joshua, kids, life, travel by pkuzma 4 Comments

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Late Friday night, it's been quite a week since I last posted on Sunday night. We traveled about 1,500 miles through 5 states in 4 days, arriving at the home of some lifelong friends in Damascus, Oregon, only 5 miles from where Jonathan has been...

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