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Picture of Eric

Monday, March 30th, 2009
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I was just testing my updated Wordpress. I hate upgrading. Seems like everything works

Eric is Home and Doing Great Yea :)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
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Eric arrived at our house at about 1PM today. He is doing very well.
We have much to be thankful for. See picture below. Enough said.
Thanks for all of your prayers and your support.

Eric Is Doing Great

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
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Eric is doing fine. He is eating and sitting up. The doctors told us Eric will likely go home on Monday.
After lunch, they want Eric to get up and walk around. We will be able to walk to different parts of the hospital. Eric is very ready to get rid of all the tubes and [...]

Update On Eric

Saturday, November 15th, 2008
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This afternoon after several hours delay, Eric was moved out of ICU to a regular room.
Eric is sitting up in bed and eating. He is playing with his toys and doing quite well. For those of you that are interested I will give a few highlights since Eric was out of surgery.
Last night was [...]

Eric’s Surgery Successful

Friday, November 14th, 2008
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The surgeon just told us that the operation was successful. Everything went as planned. The blood is all flowing like normal.
There was some concern that the membrane would damage the aortic valve. The doctor said the valve looks fine. There was no long term damage to the valve.

Surgery Schedule For Eric

Thursday, November 13th, 2008
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We are to be at the hospital at 8:15AM. We are planning on driving to Pittsburgh tonight and getting a motel so that we don’t have to get up at 4am.
The hospital has not given us an exact time but we estimate surgery around 10AM.
I hope to update after Eric is out [...]

Son Eric’s Heart Surgery

Thursday, November 6th, 2008
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Hi Friends and Family,
Our oldest son Eric Chad is scheduled for open heart surgery next Friday November 14.
Ever since Eric was a baby the doctors talked about Eric having a bad heart murmur. They always talked about how children often have a murmur and than grow out of it. About a year ago we changed [...]

Main Course @ Stoltzfus Family

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
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My wife had this for the main course tonight.

Beautiful Rainbow

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
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We had a beautiful rainbow out behind out house. The rainbow was complete and the double rainbow went almost half way around.

Old Old Pictures of My Dad

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
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My dad sent me some very interesting old pictures.

This is a picture of my dad from 1964 or 1965. Somebody called my dad and said he had some pictures from about 40 years ago. My dad looks a lot like my youngest brother Matt.

This is my dad, my aunt Sadie, and likely my cousin Anna. [...]