Friends, Romans and Countrymen, I have decided that the time has come to stop doing the Take Flight Blog. Kathy is declining, and the 24 hour around the clock care is wearing us down.
Heartfelt thanks go out to our daughter Heather and her daughter Grace for their loving care of Kathy, as we’ve lived in their home. Also, April (Washington state) and Amanda (Florida), our other daughters, have cared for Kathy when they could, and have traveled thousands of miles to come be with their beloved Mama.
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I’m not saying I will never start up the Blog again, but now the path forward is obscured by the fog of life, and I don’t know what the future holds. Thankfully, God does know and we trust Him with everything.
God has been so good to us. In 2011 Kathy had a near death experience at the eye doctor in Petoskey, Michigan. A dye used to look inside the eye put her into Cardiac arrest, and the EMS was just driving past. As they rushed her to the ER, her body began to shut down, and she reports a sense of otherworldly peace enveloped her. They restarted stuff at the hospital, and life went on. In 2017 her clinic doctor called the EMTs during an appointment and they identified interstitial lung disease. She spent Christmas 2017 in the ICU, and they sent her home with a brochure on cremation. At home she made a remarkable recovery. In Grand Rapids, on September 16, 2021, she woke me to say, “I can’t breathe.” EMS rushed her to Mercy Hospital and they diagnosed her with the deadly Delta strain COVID–19. She survived, barely. She has had several life–altering episodes since then. She is now bedridden and is not eating hardly at all.
Your prayers in the past have been a wonderful blessing, and we hope you will continue to pray for Kathy and her family as we move forward.
God’s richest blessings on you all,
Curtis Alexander
