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Jesse's journey for bilateral (double) lung transplant for cystic fibrosis

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Missed the Live Stream? It’s now online.

Jul 18, 2017 By Ben Meredith Leave a Comment

The live stream of the service was recorded. Over on the Celebration and Guest Book page (which formerly housed the live stream) there is a full recording of the service. Be sure to sign the guestbook if you haven't already. In case you want to watch just the tributes portion of the service, keep reading

Celebrating Jesse’s Life

Jul 7, 2017 By Ben Meredith 11 Comments

Visitation Blount & Curry Funeral Home 3207 W Bearss Ave Tampa,Fl 33618 Sunday, July 9 from 5-7 pm Funeral Service Idlewild Baptist Church 18333 Exciting Idlewild Blvd Lutz,FL 33548 Monday, July 10 at 11:00 am Eastern Daylight Time This event will also be streamed live. Please keep reading

Jesse Petersen Has Passed Away.

Jul 5, 2017 By Ben Meredith 61 Comments

Friends, This is not the post I wanted to write today. I wanted to click "Publish" on the draft we've already got saved named "It's a GO!" But God in His providence—a providence Jesse leaned so heavily on these last few months—decided to answer Jesse's prayers for perfect lungs with a keep reading

June Week 4 Update – Another Holiday Passed

Jun 29, 2017 By Jesse 1 Comment

Here we are at Day 104/105. Wow. Just wow! We really thought I'd be pretty much healed up by now. [long pause] Straight up, I'm tired of waiting and ready to get on with life. A quick rundown of every day There has never been a wait of any of my many waiting periods in my 38 years like this keep reading

Hemoptysis: My Bloodiest Day

Jun 14, 2017 By Jesse Leave a Comment

Raise your hand if you know what hemoptysis is. It's when your lungs spring a vascular leak and you start coughing up blood, which is different than vomiting blood - those are totally different issues from different organs. I have talked about it in regards to CF on my old blog here, here, and here keep reading

How I Felt on “Dry Run Day” and After

Jun 12, 2017 By Jesse 1 Comment

I’m going to mostly stick to the thoughts and emotions of the day in this one. This one will serve as a peek into my head and soul for anyone following to know what the day was like as my personal experience. To read the narrative of the day → How a Dry Run Happens For those who don’t want all keep reading

How a Dry Run Happens

Jun 11, 2017 By Jesse 6 Comments

Right out of the gate... thank you to everyone who prayed, texted, liked, favorited, replied, shared, and visited us on our adventure after receiving The Call Friday morning. As eloquent as my words can be from time to time, they fall pitifully short of being able to describe how much love we felt keep reading

We Got The CALL!

Jun 9, 2017 By Ben Meredith 2 Comments

Hello all. My name is Ben Meredith, and I'm a good friend of Jesse's. He's asked me to update the site here with the latest, so that he and Kristin can avoid having to repost everywhere. The reason you get to hear from me for a bit is THEY GOT THE CALL! in the wee hours of Friday. Here's what we keep reading

June Week 1 Update – Updated Feeding Tube

Jun 3, 2017 By Jesse 1 Comment

This week was another clinic appointment... one that we both thought we'd be canceling because I'd be in post-transplant clinic instead. Other than the disappointment of the appointment existing, it was a good visit. As far as days go, the day before was a "bad lung day" and clinic day was a keep reading

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