Saturday is Happy Heart Day!

A year ago this Saturday was a very scary day & because of what occured last year on that day I have decided to call this years July 25 Happy Heart Day!!! Actually the entire last summer was a very scary time. Greg, my normally very healthy, energetic husband went into congestive heart failure, afibulation & was diagnosed with 2 severely damaged heart valves. This all occured while he was in the hospital having back surgery at the end of May. So on July 25, 2008 he under went open heart surgery to replace two of his heart valves. WHAT A HORRIFIC SURGERY!!! It's hard for me to even write about it. I want to describe just how awful it was for Greg but I can't. When I think about for too long I get taken right back to that day and the many days that followed. I don't ever want to relive those days again...I certainly know Greg does not. As hard as the whole ordeal was for him and for his family to witness, he is alive and that is what matters. If he hadn't of jumped on the trampoline with the kids in March and BROKE his back, then he wouldn't have had the back surgery in May, then we wouldn't have known about his heart valves. He most likely had defective heart valves due to having Rheumatic fever as a child. Doctors said he would of just dropped dead at any point in the next few years because of how severely damaged they were. As we know God works in very mysterious ways and we have witnessed that first hand. I love Greg with all my heart and can't imagine my life without him, so every single time I hear that tick tock his heart now makes (yes, mechanical heart valves are loud and can be heard outside the body) I smile because that sounds mean my husband is still by my side and alive!

So HAPPY HEART DAY MY LOVE!