Allison’s New Heart

Acey My niece, Allison, has a new heart, as of last Tuesday! Many thanks to all for your prayers. Just for grins, I have posted a picture of her, pre-transplant, with Ace Young, from last season’s American Idol show. He came by Denver Children’s Hospital just to see her. Nice guy.

Since I posted a link to Allison’s Web Page previously, I have refrained from posting on her progress for a couple of reasons;

1) The news of her recovery changes daily, and I only want to hit highlights as they come. I am by nature optimistic, and didn’t want to post about every little bump in the road.

2) I didn’t want events in my personal life to even BEGIN to dominate Jimmy’s blog, even in the short term.

In short, Allison is doing well. The surgery itself went as well as could be expected. Such procedures now take between 6-8 hours, and her’s was typical. there was scar tissue to deal with, and for that reason there was some increased post-operative bleeding that was not unexpected. One significant fact; Allison’s blood oxygen levels, post-op, have been normal for the first time in her life! So her new heart is doing it’s thing.

There have been some additional issues, but overall, Allison is recovering nicely. If you would like to keep up with her day-to-day progress, her webpage is updated fairly often by my brother, the radio genius. He’s not only a great husband and father, but he can build a radio station for you from the ground up, and in addition is the best DJ and sports announcer I have ever heard.

Praise God for his healing mercy.

13 thoughts on “Allison’s New Heart”

  2. I didn’t want events in my personal life to even BEGIN to dominate Jimmy’s blog, even in the short term.
    Jimmy, don’t worry about that. If someone needs prayer and is in this kind of medical situation, post away.
    Deo gratias!!

  5. Ooh, that didn’t come out as nicely as I intended it to. Make that : ) and : D, respectively.

  7. Just think of all the horrible jokes you can make, every time they sing “Change Our Hearts This Time”! 🙂
    Thank you, God, for looking after Allison.
    May light eternal shine upon the donor of her heart, and may God be as generous as the gift given.

  8. Thanks be to God! I will continue to keep your niece in my prayers, Mr. Jones (Mr. Jones, I state, who is *not* Jimmy Akin). Let us now hope that her body accepts this new heart, and that she may have a long and joyful life.

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