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
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.
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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