Showing posts with label mark sandy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mark sandy. Show all posts
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Monday, September 28, 2020
Fall has arrived
So September brought a few unexpected things. Getting ready for a hernia repair that was caused by where my chest was cracked open. I cant exercise because it is very painful. The surgeon that 8s doing the repair is my heart transplant surgeons wife!
Then I have been told I need a brain shunt because I have a lot of fluid build up around my brain but I have decided to hold off on that one. Then I find out that my landlord wants to kick us out. So we have three decisions. Stay in circleville and rent again, buy a house in Circleville or move out of state and the later I feel is the better option. I need a fresh start for my family. The are so many cobwebs here and people that I thought I trusted and now I have seen the truth.
I have been granted 8 extra years with an lvad and a new heart and some people that i really trusted and be friended really dont and didnt get. I am done with other people that wont be honest with me and make me feel like a user.
The sad thing is that I have been so miserable from my brain pressure issue that it changed my life. My memory became foggy, I lived in a world of either reality or not real. And if these people who i cared about didn't see that and saw my destruction, then shame on them.
I dont have much time left so I am going to use what time I do have to explore life.
I am fed up with worry about other people's issues as I have my own and my family needs me. I still have time to be that person I wanted to be to stand up and inspire. So although there are people that let me down, they actually made me realise that I am a good man.
So I wont say pray for me for a while because the church right now has let me down and I have to find peace with all that's happened.
Be safe my friends and please continue to share my website
Three years on and I still think of my old buddy. RIP Keith.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Heart Awareness car project
So when I started feeling better I decided to change the look of my boring car to something that will stand out and get attention focused towards my website.
The heart with the 8 represents a person can save up to 8 lives and impact up to 50 people.
The vinyl isnt quite finished but it's getting there. I pray someday that I meet my donors family but I pledge until the day I die I will keep promoting organ eye and tissue donations.
I just wish I had a secret fund that I could use to make this one heck of a vehicle to make kids remember.
114000 people in the US are waiting for life saving transplants and 20 people die every day here in the US after waiting and running out of time.
Either click on the link within my website or go to life saving sign up
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Blood Draw
At Berger hospital for a blood draw to make sure i am still alive! Which i think i am. Although i am in some pai , i am starting to feel so much better. After this i am going to the Y to sign up for the Live strong program. And today is this young mans heavenly birthday. Happy Birthday Jacob. As humans we nees to learn more about teenage suicide. ❤
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
A day in the life of me!
Welcome to my world!
Heart cath, biopsy, flu swab, blood draw and urine sample! Oh and a turkey sandwich.
Tomorrow i get the results of the biopsy but my doctor thinks because all my heart pressures are excellant my biopsy should be good to.
Sunday, March 3, 2019
Sunday. Day of rest!
Everyday seems like a Sunday. It's hard to focus sometimes on what's going to happen next. I am blessed to be alive but its tough. Mood swings, anxiety, who do i trust why trust anything, trying to be me and on and on. I almost need a break, a big break for me and those i have hurt along the way. I have survivors guilt, guilt of not being there for my family. Not trusting friends, being a person that worries about sins. But if i don't focus then why am i here. I am a good person on the inside to. People sometimes take me the total wrong way and that makes so sad.
So its Sunday and tomorrow is a new day and new week. Take care and peace....
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Saturday, December 20, 2014
Angels are everywhere.
Every good man has a even better good woman behind them. This is my good woman. She stands behind everything I do, she saved my life, literally, she guides me, protects me and loves me. She is my rock and my soul mate. Thank you Tracey Sandy for being there, for another tough but easier year.
You hear me talk about what I have achieved but here's something that this year Tracey has achieved. She started a giving tree facebook group and came across a young girl with a child and one on the way. The child that was due was unfortunately going to have health issues. She was asking for kids clothes, so Tracey went and bought her some, even though we are financially struggling ourselves. To date, Maggie, the young girl she first helped has now got a whole bunch of baby stuff from her baby shower and she now has an apartment. All of the woman at the Circleville Nazarene, Stephanie and Allison are amazing as they have changed this young girls life. All started by my awesome wife.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
New website look!
So hopefully the new website looks good and is easy to navigate. Still plenty of updates but I think it looks awesome.g
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Thursday, October 2, 2014
October 2nd.....
The trees are turning from rich greens to oranges, reds and brown. The leaves are fluttering down to earth with such grace and the branches now are naked and exposed.
For the first time I look at every tree that God has put in front of me. The life it brings, the sounds it creates and the beauty of its presence lives amongst us in a type of silence. They are everywhere and they are part of our life. The lord as created an amazing growing organism, right here, right now. We tend to miss them, not notice them until you get to realise that all this is not promised. I find beauty in everything, especially gods creations.
Happy Thursday and enjoy the times of changing seasons.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Church speech
If you think your church congregation would be inspired by my story please send me an email. Here's my speech if you'd like to listen. http://youtu.be/Pu8Z1GYCDdQ
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Sunday
Hoping that this coming week is full of energy for me. Felt sluggish and yucky today.
So I am sitting out on my back porch watching the birds catch the last of the bugs as the sun sets at 7.56pm. It's cool, it's pretty awesome because I hear the bugs and frogs and other little creatures calling out their dusk sounds.
So this weekend has been strange as we as a couple feel like we get judged or we do things that others don't approve of. Myself and Tracey are very hard nosed people and tend to do what we thinks right. I apologize if we offend or have offended anyone before. We don't do things annoy, upset or make arguments, it's just the way we are and I guess that's why we married each other.
On that note, be safe and love one another.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
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