Yes, time to give you an update with what is happening with me. I am getting along great, physically, and by that I mean, my new heart has been doing a good job. They told me after the transplant that it was a perfect match. I thought I was "one of a kind". Anyway, at my last biopsy visit in April, I had done my x-ray, echo, and while waiting for them to come take me to do my biopsy, the doctor came in and said "we are not going to do any more biopsy's on you, we only do the Alomap bloodwork." I was so excited.
The Alomap bloodwork had been done in coordination with my biopsy for a long time and if their readings are the same results, they do not perform the biopsy any more because they can get the same results just from the lab work. SO, after two and a half years out, I am free of the biopsy. I am on very little medication for the heart rejection. And will be forever, I guess. BUT I am so happy that God has seen fit to leave me here a little longer and with the quality of life that I have. God is an awsome God! ! !
So, with this update, I want to thank all of you for your prayers and kind words. I love every one of you and if you see me anywhere, stop me and talk.
I love you!
Bessie Reeder
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Do you think Winter will ever be over? Again this morning, March 28th, two inches of snow on everything. And I understand that in the morning it will be the same surprise....but I already know, SO, I won't be shocked. The park will need a lot more attention this spring because of all the rain with it washing roads and the grass will probably get a good headstart on growing before we can get in with the mowing machines. Some repairs will need to be done, but that is always the case. I believe that some time in late April, a group is going to schedule a "work day". We will try to put the word out and if you want to join us, come on. I am now trying to get out our flyers. If you can place some out, call me and I will send you some to do just that. It is always a big help when our musicians and friends take an interest. We would also like to ask that you encourage the younger musicians to join us. We need to expand our crowds and bring them in to join us. That is how we are going to pass our heritage of the old'time bluegrass music on. I do appreciate all the bands and musicians that participate in the jam groups around the park. It makes things much more festive. I want to mention to you that Mona is hoping to have the DVD out by Memorial Day of the history of the park and all it's interviews with the musicians, DJ's, associations involved with its preservation. We are hoping it will be ready and packaged for the festival. Be sure to get yours. Looking forward to seeing you in about eight weeks. It is going to be another great festival year. May the Good Lord Bless you and yours, Bessie Reeder
Sunday, February 27, 2011
2011 and Still going!
February 2011
Y E S there will be two festivals this year. The flyers are out, the bands ready to come perform for you and we have a teriffic line-up. Our headliner is the Next Best Thing. Help us reach the younger Bluegrass fans. We need to pass our heritage on. We have a lot of history here at our park. It began in 1968 and this year we will celebrate our 43rd Labor Day Festival. The Memorial Day Festival came along in the 1980's, and we celebrate our 30th this year.
The park gets more beautiful each year. Love these Ozarks, so peaceful and awsome. We have been open all year round with our camping and there are a few that find out we are open. It is good to have someone in and out. The snow has been a beautiful sight, also. Never seen so much in my whole life.
So come support us at the festivals and bring someone with you that you think might have a good time. I meet lots of people that say they love the music. It is just what we grew up with and you won't hear it anywhere else.
NOW to talk about my grandkids. They have moved to Texas as of this past December. I am having withdrawals. Tyler is 7 and enjoying his 1st grade. Austin will soon turn 4 in July and will start pre-school in the fall. Collin will be 2 in March and he is the "boss". Danny and Crystal have a beautiful team of boys. My Daddy had three girls and he would always say "all my boys is girls." Crystal says that's OK, girls take a lot of time and she is used to boys.
So, until next time....stay happy, healthy and May God richly bless you.
Because He Lives, I will live,
Bessie Reeder
Y E S there will be two festivals this year. The flyers are out, the bands ready to come perform for you and we have a teriffic line-up. Our headliner is the Next Best Thing. Help us reach the younger Bluegrass fans. We need to pass our heritage on. We have a lot of history here at our park. It began in 1968 and this year we will celebrate our 43rd Labor Day Festival. The Memorial Day Festival came along in the 1980's, and we celebrate our 30th this year.
The park gets more beautiful each year. Love these Ozarks, so peaceful and awsome. We have been open all year round with our camping and there are a few that find out we are open. It is good to have someone in and out. The snow has been a beautiful sight, also. Never seen so much in my whole life.
So come support us at the festivals and bring someone with you that you think might have a good time. I meet lots of people that say they love the music. It is just what we grew up with and you won't hear it anywhere else.
NOW to talk about my grandkids. They have moved to Texas as of this past December. I am having withdrawals. Tyler is 7 and enjoying his 1st grade. Austin will soon turn 4 in July and will start pre-school in the fall. Collin will be 2 in March and he is the "boss". Danny and Crystal have a beautiful team of boys. My Daddy had three girls and he would always say "all my boys is girls." Crystal says that's OK, girls take a lot of time and she is used to boys.
So, until next time....stay happy, healthy and May God richly bless you.
Because He Lives, I will live,
Bessie Reeder
Monday, November 3, 2008
I HAVE MY NEW HEART ! ! !
October 15, 2008
God is an awsome God and his timing is perfect. I had just talked with Him the night before and said "Lord, I just got to know something." Well about 4:10 Wednesday afternoon, I got the call. The team at St. Lukes said "Bessie, this is Monica, Jodie and Coleen and we have something to tell you." I was really stunned. We had a 4 hour time limit to get to KC.
We headed out and when we got on Hwy 70, oh, my. Scott was driving in the left lane doing about 85 and I was in the passenger seat "white-knuckeling" it. We made it in 3 l/2 hrs. They took me in and in 2 l/2 hours had my new heart lying inside me. The heart is a perfect match in every way. I had no problems at all. The surgery incisions have never hurt me. It has all been numb. I was in the hospital 10 days. Released to stay with a friend in KC until my first biopsy. It had 0% rejection. I came home that day to Dixon this pasts Wednesday. Wednesdays are my biopsy days and am going for my third one this week.
I want to thank you all for standing by me and praying with me. I am walking around the camground a little each day. My only hinderence is my strength. A little weak. But, other than that, I feel really good. Got color in my cheeks and bright eyes.
Thanks again. May God richly bless you for your dedication to prayer. He truly answers prayers because I can testify to that ! ! !
Love to all,
Bessie
October 15, 2008
God is an awsome God and his timing is perfect. I had just talked with Him the night before and said "Lord, I just got to know something." Well about 4:10 Wednesday afternoon, I got the call. The team at St. Lukes said "Bessie, this is Monica, Jodie and Coleen and we have something to tell you." I was really stunned. We had a 4 hour time limit to get to KC.
We headed out and when we got on Hwy 70, oh, my. Scott was driving in the left lane doing about 85 and I was in the passenger seat "white-knuckeling" it. We made it in 3 l/2 hrs. They took me in and in 2 l/2 hours had my new heart lying inside me. The heart is a perfect match in every way. I had no problems at all. The surgery incisions have never hurt me. It has all been numb. I was in the hospital 10 days. Released to stay with a friend in KC until my first biopsy. It had 0% rejection. I came home that day to Dixon this pasts Wednesday. Wednesdays are my biopsy days and am going for my third one this week.
I want to thank you all for standing by me and praying with me. I am walking around the camground a little each day. My only hinderence is my strength. A little weak. But, other than that, I feel really good. Got color in my cheeks and bright eyes.
Thanks again. May God richly bless you for your dedication to prayer. He truly answers prayers because I can testify to that ! ! !
Love to all,
Bessie
Sunday, September 14, 2008
FESTIVAL TIME
September 15, 2008
The 40th Annual Bluegrass Festival was a lot of fun for all who attended. There were a lot of new people and we are glad of that. Bring your friends and family next time for the Memorial Day Festival.
I felt so good every day, even though I had to make a trip first thing to Jefferson City for my antibiotic shot. I felt like playing and I did get to play with Wild Rose Band and then with the "Open Stage" group. I did sing a coule of songs, but I was so rusty. I felt it so strongly. I had not played my bass for a year and it had been almost that long since I sang publicly. I feel really blessed and I thank you for praying for me. God has truly answered prayers, because I feel good. Some heart recipients spend most of their time in the hospital waiting, but I have been able to be out....able to do for myself.....walk to regain my strength.....and enjoy my little babies.
Thanks to all of you who came to visit me at the ticket shack. I certainly enjoyed you and the special times we had together.
As of the 20th of August, I am back on the heart recipient list and my treatments for now are over. Now the waiting again. I pray for my miracle and I thank God for it every day.
Because He Lives
we have blessings,
Bessie
The 40th Annual Bluegrass Festival was a lot of fun for all who attended. There were a lot of new people and we are glad of that. Bring your friends and family next time for the Memorial Day Festival.
I felt so good every day, even though I had to make a trip first thing to Jefferson City for my antibiotic shot. I felt like playing and I did get to play with Wild Rose Band and then with the "Open Stage" group. I did sing a coule of songs, but I was so rusty. I felt it so strongly. I had not played my bass for a year and it had been almost that long since I sang publicly. I feel really blessed and I thank you for praying for me. God has truly answered prayers, because I feel good. Some heart recipients spend most of their time in the hospital waiting, but I have been able to be out....able to do for myself.....walk to regain my strength.....and enjoy my little babies.
Thanks to all of you who came to visit me at the ticket shack. I certainly enjoyed you and the special times we had together.
As of the 20th of August, I am back on the heart recipient list and my treatments for now are over. Now the waiting again. I pray for my miracle and I thank God for it every day.
Because He Lives
we have blessings,
Bessie
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Tied Down Again
August 6, 2008
I have enjoyed a couple of weeks home but I was admitted into St. Lukes Hospital on July 25th with a "staff infection". I was so sick when I got to the hospital. The pic line I had in my arm for the IV had gotten the staff infection and they had to remove it. They used three powerful antibiotics to try to kill it. With that under control, they inserted a new pic line and it is doing great. I was sent home on August 4th.
I was to continue an IV antiobiotic and the only place to get that administered was at St. Mary's hospital in Jefferson City. That is a 100 mile round trip and I have to have five weeks every day of this medicine. So pray for me that it will come to an end without incident. I am looking forward to our 40th Annual Bluegrass Festival. Hope to see you there.
I have enjoyed a couple of weeks home but I was admitted into St. Lukes Hospital on July 25th with a "staff infection". I was so sick when I got to the hospital. The pic line I had in my arm for the IV had gotten the staff infection and they had to remove it. They used three powerful antibiotics to try to kill it. With that under control, they inserted a new pic line and it is doing great. I was sent home on August 4th.
I was to continue an IV antiobiotic and the only place to get that administered was at St. Mary's hospital in Jefferson City. That is a 100 mile round trip and I have to have five weeks every day of this medicine. So pray for me that it will come to an end without incident. I am looking forward to our 40th Annual Bluegrass Festival. Hope to see you there.
Friday, July 18, 2008
No Transplant BUT I'm Home
July 18, 2008
Was just settling down in KC serving in a little Baptist Church, singing and volunteering at the hospital. I really was beginning to belong there. UNTIL I went for my doctor's appointment the last of June and he said it would take 5-6 months for the last antibody-lowering procedure to totally work and that I could go home. I was certainly shocked, but we started making immediate arrangemnets to move out of the apartment before the first of the month. We came home that Friday. I am still on the waiting list, still on the 24-hr IV, and the antibodies lower a little every day. Went for an appointment yesterday the 17th and there had been one heart last week that I matched, but the heart had problems and they did not take it. They are so excellent in their procedures. I am at a good place. If they call, I will be out of there to KC. It could be any time.....please continue to pray for me.
We are now settled down back at home and boy is there a lot to do. I know Scott had a very heavy load trying to keep it all together. He is on the road now and I can take care of things at the park and help him in his trucking business.
OH, and Little Austin is now 1 year old. He has been with me since he was 1 month old. AND he is expecting another sibling in February. We are hoping and praying for a girl. Anyway, he is growing so fast. Not quite walking, but standing and taking a step or two. Won't be long. They are settling down in my home in Vienna. Tyler is going to Vacation Bible School this week. This weekend they are going to Arkansas to visit with their other Grandma and have Austin's birthday party with them.
I am able to do whatever I want to and I AM. My doctor told me that my body would tell me when I was overdoing it. I want to plan a show at the Labor Day Festival. Am getting together my band members and we will have a great time. I am looking forward to the festival very much. HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE.....
Was just settling down in KC serving in a little Baptist Church, singing and volunteering at the hospital. I really was beginning to belong there. UNTIL I went for my doctor's appointment the last of June and he said it would take 5-6 months for the last antibody-lowering procedure to totally work and that I could go home. I was certainly shocked, but we started making immediate arrangemnets to move out of the apartment before the first of the month. We came home that Friday. I am still on the waiting list, still on the 24-hr IV, and the antibodies lower a little every day. Went for an appointment yesterday the 17th and there had been one heart last week that I matched, but the heart had problems and they did not take it. They are so excellent in their procedures. I am at a good place. If they call, I will be out of there to KC. It could be any time.....please continue to pray for me.
We are now settled down back at home and boy is there a lot to do. I know Scott had a very heavy load trying to keep it all together. He is on the road now and I can take care of things at the park and help him in his trucking business.
OH, and Little Austin is now 1 year old. He has been with me since he was 1 month old. AND he is expecting another sibling in February. We are hoping and praying for a girl. Anyway, he is growing so fast. Not quite walking, but standing and taking a step or two. Won't be long. They are settling down in my home in Vienna. Tyler is going to Vacation Bible School this week. This weekend they are going to Arkansas to visit with their other Grandma and have Austin's birthday party with them.
I am able to do whatever I want to and I AM. My doctor told me that my body would tell me when I was overdoing it. I want to plan a show at the Labor Day Festival. Am getting together my band members and we will have a great time. I am looking forward to the festival very much. HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE.....
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