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January 16, 2010 
January 16, 2021
On the ELEVENTH anniversary of Christopher’s heart transplant, thanking God for this wild, wonderful journey.
#GoChristopherGo
#TheBeatGoesOn
#DonateLife
@archildrens
A video and a brief thread about how January 16, 2010 unfolded:
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January 16, 2021On the ELEVENTH anniversary of Christopher’s heart transplant, thanking God for this wild, wonderful journey.
#GoChristopherGo
#TheBeatGoesOn
#DonateLife
@archildrens
A video and a brief thread about how January 16, 2010 unfolded:
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Christopher was born Nov. 30, 2009, with multiple heart defects. When he was a week old, we were told the original plan—three surgeries—was no longer viable.
He needed a heart transplant.
The waiting began.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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He needed a heart transplant.
The waiting began.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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January 16, 2010
The phone rang at 1:20 a.m. PST. My wife was on the other end, calling from 2,000 miles away.
“We got the call," Shannon said. "We have a heart.”
That’s how the scariest, best day began.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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The phone rang at 1:20 a.m. PST. My wife was on the other end, calling from 2,000 miles away.
“We got the call," Shannon said. "We have a heart.”
That’s how the scariest, best day began.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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January 16, 2010
I was already scheduled to fly from Oregon to Little Rock the next day. Instead I caught a 6 a.m. flight.
Six hours later, I walked into @archildrens – seven minutes ahead of the team bringing the heart.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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I was already scheduled to fly from Oregon to Little Rock the next day. Instead I caught a 6 a.m. flight.
Six hours later, I walked into @archildrens – seven minutes ahead of the team bringing the heart.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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January 16, 2010
The heart arrived, from another state, in an ordinary-looking blue cooler.
It's such a difficult thing--wanting something so badly but knowing what makes it possible.
We were thankful. And sad. Clashing emotions. #GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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The heart arrived, from another state, in an ordinary-looking blue cooler.
It's such a difficult thing--wanting something so badly but knowing what makes it possible.
We were thankful. And sad. Clashing emotions. #GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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January 16, 2010
Hopeful but anxious, we waited with family and friends, getting periodic updates from the OR.
Time passed very slowly.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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Hopeful but anxious, we waited with family and friends, getting periodic updates from the OR.
Time passed very slowly.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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January 16, 2010
At 3:44 p.m. the new heart was in place. The surgeon, Dr. Robert “Jake” Jaquiss, told us:
“That’s one of the happiest hearts I’ve seen in a while.”
Suddenly our hearts were very happy, too.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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At 3:44 p.m. the new heart was in place. The surgeon, Dr. Robert “Jake” Jaquiss, told us:
“That’s one of the happiest hearts I’ve seen in a while.”
Suddenly our hearts were very happy, too.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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January 16, 2010
A pastor friend led us, praying: “We just say thank you, thank you. You are a good God.”
Then we got to see our boy. He was very sick—but that new heart was beat, beat, beating.
It was the scariest, best day.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #donatelife
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A pastor friend led us, praying: “We just say thank you, thank you. You are a good God.”
Then we got to see our boy. He was very sick—but that new heart was beat, beat, beating.
It was the scariest, best day.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #donatelife
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January 16, 2010
We’re inexpressibly grateful to a family we have never met — we hope to one day — who, amid unfathomable tragedy, provided our baby boy with the gift of life.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #donatelife
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We’re inexpressibly grateful to a family we have never met — we hope to one day — who, amid unfathomable tragedy, provided our baby boy with the gift of life.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #donatelife
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January 16, 2010
We’re grateful to the wonderful physicians and staff of
@archildrens — on that day and for months afterward as Christopher clung to life.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #donatelife
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We’re grateful to the wonderful physicians and staff of
@archildrens — on that day and for months afterward as Christopher clung to life.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #donatelife
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January 16, 2010
We’re grateful to so many people — so many of you — who have prayed for Christopher and for us.
Thank you all.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #donatelife
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We’re grateful to so many people — so many of you — who have prayed for Christopher and for us.
Thank you all.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #donatelife
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January 16, 2010
On the 11th anniversary of a heart transplant, we thank God for the scariest, best day — and for so many since.
His answer to our prayers could've been different — He would still be good — but gratefully, the beat goes on.
#GoChristophergo #donatelife
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On the 11th anniversary of a heart transplant, we thank God for the scariest, best day — and for so many since.
His answer to our prayers could've been different — He would still be good — but gratefully, the beat goes on.
#GoChristophergo #donatelife
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January 16, 2010
Today, Christopher is a healthy, growing boy filled with life and a joyful, fighting spirit.
Eleven years later that little heart just keeps beating. It's still happy.
We are, too.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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Today, Christopher is a healthy, growing boy filled with life and a joyful, fighting spirit.
Eleven years later that little heart just keeps beating. It's still happy.
We are, too.
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #DonateLife
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January 16, 2010
(Thanks also to Carolyne Park Krupa & Staton Breidenthal, who reported Christopher's story for @ArkansasOnline —observing the transplant — and painted an accurate portrait.)
LINK: https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/aug/09/heart-matter-hope-fear-fill-anxious-hours-20100809/
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #donatelife
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(Thanks also to Carolyne Park Krupa & Staton Breidenthal, who reported Christopher's story for @ArkansasOnline —observing the transplant — and painted an accurate portrait.)
LINK: https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/aug/09/heart-matter-hope-fear-fill-anxious-hours-20100809/
#GoChristophergo #thebeatgoeson #donatelife
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January 16, 2010 January 16, 2021
For 11 years, we have experienced a vivid illustration of this truth:
God gives every heartbeat — Christopher's ... ours ... and yours.
Which leads us to ask:
What will we do with them?
#GoChristopherGo
#TheBeatGoesOn
#donatelife
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January 16, 2021For 11 years, we have experienced a vivid illustration of this truth:
God gives every heartbeat — Christopher's ... ours ... and yours.
Which leads us to ask:
What will we do with them?
#GoChristopherGo
#TheBeatGoesOn
#donatelife
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January 16, 2010 January 16, 2021
If you got this far, thank y'all for reading this thread.
If you would, please join us, on this ELEVENTH anniversary of #GoChristopherGo's heart transplant, in thanking God for this wild, wonderful journey he has given us.
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January 16, 2021If you got this far, thank y'all for reading this thread.
If you would, please join us, on this ELEVENTH anniversary of #GoChristopherGo's heart transplant, in thanking God for this wild, wonderful journey he has given us.
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