Day 1 with the New Heart

Thank you everyone once again for your continued prayer.  We continue to feel God's comfort, grace and peace  that doesn't make sense and can only be from God.  I just want to encourage you that if you are feeling at all stressed about everything we are sharing that is going on with Zak to stop and look to God and ask him to help you along the way.  In the Bible we can read about many of God's promises and the amazing thing is that they aren't about stories from the past but about what God has for us today.

I am going to share a few of the promises that I hold onto on a daily basis and I really encourage you to search out God's grace, peace and presence yourself.  God is being tangibly felt by both Scott and myself along this journey and we are filled with His supernatural peace.

Here are just a few great verses:

^{Hebrews 4:16}

Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Jeremiah 29:11-13

¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ¹² Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 

Psalm 4:8
In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety.

We love to be reminded about all that God has for us so if you have any verses that you look to for strength please post them in the comments below or email or facebook them to us.

Today we had many small things happen.  Zechariah is in a very critical state but he is stable.  This afternoon a fever broke out and getting that to lower was the focus for most of the afternoon into the evening.  Zak also had a blood glucose level of over 600 today so they are giving him insulin to lower that.  We thought that they would try to get him off of the ventilator tomorrow but he is still needing nitric oxide which is helping to lower his pulmonary pressures so that his new heart doesn't fail.  Zechariah is hooked up to 18 different medicine ports that are continually giving him medicine to help stabilize and support all that he has been through.

The hospital staff continue to assure us that everything is going as could be expected and that we have come through a lot of victories so far.  The journey we are on is a very long marathon and not a sprint.  Even after we leave the hospital and take Zechariah home to recover we will remain in a fairly critical state.

We so appreciate all of your continual support as we are traveling down this road.  We love to hear your comments, emails, and facebook replies.  We are going to do our best to continue to post once or twice a day.

Blessings,
Kat Kindberg

Surgery Went Well

I just want to say another quick thank you to all of you have been standing beside our family on this journey.

Zak got his new heart and is doing well.  The surgery was over around 11PM tonight.  Zak is now settled back in his room in the PICU.

Everything that we have been praying for is going great.  Their was concern before his surgery that his new heart may need some assistance pumping against his high pulmonary pressures but his new heart is doing great all on its own.  We also were told going into surgery to expect him to be out at 2AM.  He is doing well in his room and it isn't even 2AM yet.

The prayers that we have for the next few days:

1. That his body doesn't reject the new heart.
2. The first 24 hours he will be at a high risk of having a stroke. So we need to pray that he doesn't.
3. That he doesn't have any extra bleeding.

And I sure their are a lot more things that I am not thinking of because of the hour of the day and all of the different events of the day.  Please just pray for full recovery and that our little boy will be able to go home healthy and strong.

We so appreciate all of you and look forward to talking to you in the days and weeks to come. We have come along way on this journey and have a long way to go. Thank you in advance for your continual prayers.

Sweet Dreams!!:)

Blessings,
Kat