Tyson Hugh Hooper

Tyson Hugh Hooper
Our son, Tyson Hugh Hooper, was born with coarctation of the aorta, hypoplastic arch, and a transitional avsd. His first open heart surgery reconstructed his aorta and was on day 9 of life. His second open heart repair was not anticipated to be needed until two or three years of age. Ty had other plans. We spent the vast majority of his first 3 months of life at Vanderbilt as he went into heart failure and was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension. As a result, the medical team concluded that he needed the repair much sooner than usually recommended, and at just shy of 3 months old Ty underwent his second life saving open heart surgery. God has already worked so many miracles in Ty's life and the life of our family and we know he is using our story. Because of this, we are grateful for Ty's special heart and feel beyond blessed that God chose us to travel this road. We ask for prayers as Ty continues to heal. We are praying for a full recovery and life without restrictions for Ty. We are praying for God to use our family and Ty for His glory.

Thank you to each and every person who supports us through prayer, giving, or just by loving on our family! We are humbled and blessed by all of the ways the Lord is providing for us and know that he is using Ty and his story to do great things!

Saturday, April 5, 2008

A Ray of Sunshine...

...that's right people! We might actually SEE a ray of sunshine today! WOO-WOO! The clouds are finally parting and there is some warmer temperatures and sunshine in the forecast and I am excited about it!

My weekend started as it usually does, with a cold brew and some unwinding at a local Mexican establishment after work Friday! This is a weekly tradition with a few of my close colleagues. The group changes from time to time, but just about any Friday you can find a group of fabulous middle school teachers unwinding over a glass of sweet tea or a cold beverage of choice that washes the weeks stress away. Here are a few of us this Friday winding down...


Last night my cousin and his wife drove down from Knoxville to check out MTSU and the surrounding area. My cousin will begin working on his masters this coming fall and they wanted to come down to look around and start getting ideas for apartments, etc. They joined me and a couple of friends at Demos' for dinner and then we headed back to my place to hang out. This morning we ate at City Cafe (my favorite breakfast spot in town) and then they went off on their own to explore our great town!

That's it for the post today - short and sweet - because I have lazy Saturday to get to and tonight is Bucca de Beppo with my most favorite group of friends in the whole wide world! I am sure I will be posting tomorrow to catch everyone up on the fun times!

Until then - enjoy the weekend and watch for the sunshine!!!!

Posted by Meagan at 8:55 AM  

2 comments:

Sarah said...

How fun. You and your friends do a lot of stuff together. Thats something to treasure.
Which cousin can from Knoxville, Jason or Will?

April 6, 2008 at 5:38 PM  
Meagan said...

It was Will that came down... Will and Cindy. We had a good time!

April 7, 2008 at 1:38 PM  

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