Here is an update on an old friend of ours who received a heart transplant this past weekend. He is doing pretty well. They weaned him off the ventilator on Sunday evening, and he was eating light snacks on Monday. He is in a lot of pain, however, because the nurses are trying to get him to cough and breath deeply and, well, you can just imagine how his chest must be feeling.

I did some research on heart transplants and discovered that there are, at any time, about 800,000 people in the world who are identified as needing a transplant, while only about 3,500 of these people succeed in receiving one. That is about 0.4%.

So many have been praying for Raymond, and so far he is truly beating the odds. We are so thankful!