Dear Ownbey Family, Got this update from ED HILLMAN...
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Dear Friends, I have returned from my two-week check at Chapel Hill,
and all is going well with my healing and Mark's new kidney!
I'll be returning to work part time next week, and easing back into my yoga and
fish pills regimen. I am most grateful for the cards, calls, e-mails, visits,
thoughts and prayers you have sent my way and heavenward. It will be twenty years
before I know how all the prayers have turned out, but in terms of immediate effects,
the transplant could not have gone better. And this happened in Chapel Hill!
(I was born in that other hospital on that other campus 10 miles away, and they
took excellent care of me anyway -- a tip of my Duke blue hat to a great group
of practitioners.) I have learned once again that "it is in giving that we
receive," and I have gained far more from this experience than I imagined possible.
Perceiving the connectedness of family, friends, God, life and death is all quite
overwhelming, and very simple at the same time -- a gift of what is and what shall
be. This is my last transplant update as I now return to what I have always taken
to be normal life. Thank you for being with me in this.
Continue to pray as you feel led for Mark and me. We continue to be truly grateful
for all of you. The Lord be with us all, Ed
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And, as you may recall, even tho' Ed has a brother Mark, THIS Mark is Leslie's cousin (and Leslie is Ed's wife.)
Peace, Reatha - Sunday - 8:15pm
