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Seven years ago tonight.

Seven years ago tonight, our lives changed. Renee, who was on the heart transplant list, had gotten the call. And this time, it wasn’t a false alarm. This time, it was real. I was in a staff meeting at work…

False Alarm

It was about 6:30 in the morning, seven years ago today. I had already been up for half an hour. Renee, who is never voluntarily awake at 6:30 in the morning, was sound asleep. The cats were indifferent. We were…

The Heart Transplant Diaries

My wife Renee was born with a particularly aggressive form of heart disease – Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Yeah, I have trouble saying it too. By early 2015, she was in heart failure, and her quality of life was plummeting, so her…