As many of you know, Mrs. Bookheimer has been retired for some time now due to some serious health problems. I visited Mrs. Bookheimer in her home the other day and listened as she shared her story.
During a
routine MRI, Mrs. Bookheimer went into cardiac arrest. She became very weak
from inactivity, and had to be confined to a wheelchair. Despite this, she went
to Florida over spring break. While she was there, she suffered problems
breathing. She had to get an emergency tracheostomy, and has had a trach in ever since. Living with the trach has been hard for her; that is due to the fact that it needed to be cleaned very often because it fills up with mucus easily.
For a couple of months, Mrs. Bookheimer was unable to speak. This was especially challenging because her husband, Ron, is almost completely blind. Then, one day she decided to try and speak, and was amazed to hear the sound of her own voice after all those months. Mrs. Bookheimer's situation has gotten better since then, and may get her trach out soon. She said that she would go through the whole thing over again, just because of the closeness she has felt to the Lord.
~Andrew Wulf
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