My Story..revelation21ready

By now you know a little about me from JCCamp and my near death experience saving my dog Angel..Theres a little more to my story than that. Hope I don't ramble on too long..lol..I was born into a christian family in 1968 always brought up knowing about God and Jesus. Went to church and sunday school and rarely missed a day...I've always believed just not always followed...Found my bride Tammy when we were both 17 from different towns..knew she was the ONE from the first moment I met her..We married the next year at 18 and against all odds 22 years later with 3 kids still love each other very much!!! At 20years I started developing SVT's..rapid heart rythm..and started taking meds for them..at 28 I had a surgury to stop them called a pathway ablation which was pretty new and it worked although I continued having many PVCs thereafter..extra beats on occasion..not life threatening just nuicance so I started on meds again. My wife was always there helping carry me through everything..shortly after that I had the near death experience...scars on his hands blog...saving my dog which put my focus on Jesus..I studied the Bible hard for Truths and was Baptized now a Seventh Day Adventist just before our family of 4 at that time moved to Ft.Pierre. About 2 years after move my youngest son Nick developed SVT's like had had years before but his were much worse than mine and he was taking max dose meds and not controlling them....so we went to UNiv. of Iowa and had same procedure I had done to him. It worked for 2 months then they came back worse than before..he was even airlifted to a bigger Hospital one night..one of the hardest of my life...I had to drive the 3hrs not knowing anything...it tore me apart...he had another surgury a month later and during the procedure the 2nd worse thing that could happen happened..his av node was burnt out so his heart wouldn't talk from side to the other so he needed a pacemaker which they implanted the next morning..Poor kid I still feel so sorry for him he's the strongest PERSON I've ever met!! This is all at like 7 years old. After all this we had a sense pf relief no more Heart rythm probs. for Nick but he started getting puffy after about 6 months so local docs wer checking for allergy's but finally we went to a specialty clinic and found out he had a big blood clot in a vein in the top of his heart where blood dumped back into his hear evidently because of the pacemaker lead that enters there..so we were back to Iowa for a balloon surgury to open up and correct this and it worked Praise God..these 2 parents couldn't take much more..but we needed to give him 2 shots a day of a blood thinner to prevent it from re clotting..poor kid was bruised from head to toe but always in good spirits. Through all of this our Church Family was always there ministering and helping with Everything from food to money to support and prayer as were my family...I owe them more than I could ever return..Thank You!!!! after 6 months he quit the blood thinners and other than appts every 6 months Nicks been doing well now 14..freshman next year...and not needing a pacemaker replacement until he's 17...I'd like to say and we all lived happily ever after but not done..I ended up having another surgury to fix more of my heart stuff..but a year and a half ago my heart stopped or went into an arythmia and I almost blacked out while driving on my route at work..but my heart started beating right again so another drive to a Heart Specialist with lots of test and nothing that they can find wrong..says im in top 90% for health at my age..active..exercise..eat well..so here I am now....This whole testimony reminds me of the footprints painting great grandma used to have in her house...I have had lots of times in my life with only one set of footprints..and thank God daily for carrying me all these times when I couldn't do it myself!!! Thank You Lord!!! Whats important is that all of this has drawn us close together as a Family and Very Close to our Lord and Savior!! I would like to think that along the way we have shared our love, hope, and faith to Dr's, Nurses, Friends, and family and that it has drawn them nearer to Christ too!! We just take one day at a time now and be thankful for the day that the Lord has given us and I don't want to waste any of them! He has something special planned for ALL of us, lets not let Him down and look foreward to the day with no more Tears, Sorrow, or Pain!!! Where we will foreverrr worship Him!!! Thats what I live for...And I Pray you do too........We all have a Story don't we?!