By writer to www.nkytribune.com
By Judy Clabes
NKyTribune editor
By now we thought Tim Hanner — instructor, superintendent, and founding father of NaviGo career-prep — would have had his kidney transplant and be far alongside on the street to restoration.
However COVID-19 had different, sinister concepts, and its pandemic put a maintain on “elective” surgical procedures only a few weeks earlier than Hanner and his donor, Alyssa Vanderpool, have been scheduled for the long-awaited surgical procedure.
Hanner has been in lock-down, like the remainder of us, however for clearly extra critical causes, as a particularly weak transplant-recipient-in-waiting.
Alyssa Vanderpool, a instructor at Johnson Elementary, has been ready, too, whereas instructing her college students just about, NonTraditional Instruction type.
Nothing has progressed the best way it was presupposed to. However these two optimistic spirits simply received’t let something get them down
Right this moment, Hanner is weeks away from a brand new date for his transplant at Christ Hospital. Although Kentucky is beginning to loosen up some guidelines associated to healthcare, elective surgical procedures aren’t but on the listing. Christ is submitting its personal phase-in plan to the state of Ohio — however that’s a piece in progress with no fast treatment.
Hanner is on dialysis three days per week, is preserving his weight purpose, and reviews that each one his caregivers are “unimaginable,” together with spouse Marlene with whom he’s homebound.
He misses his grandchildren — and sees them solely from afar past the window. His sanctuary when the climate is sunny is his yard the place he enjoys the intensive landscaping and the redbuds — and a lounge the place he can go to sleep.
He misses no alternative to be grateful — and to remain optimistic.
He does mow his personal grass, although admits it takes him loads longer today given the time-outs he wants.
A number of the Fb ‘Weak’ group.
Hanner has no persistence for doing nothing, so he needed to do somefactor. He began a Fb group, Putting a Face on the Vulnerable, which now has over 2100 members, so that individuals most weak to COVID-19 may collect to “get by way of this collectively.”
Folks share photos and tales and laughter and tears and recommendation — and hope.
“There are various individuals no matter age, who fall into these (weak — aged, coronary heart illness, diabetes, lung illness compromised immune programs) classes,” he wrote in establishing the location. “It will be significant that everybody takes the entire precautions needed to assist shield these highest at-risk. Please submit photos of your self in case you fall into these classes — or submit photos of ones you like. The optimistic strategy to displaying the faces of who we’re working to guard, save and honor could make a distinction! Please share this web page and invite associates to begin a motion. It’s public! We are going to get by way of this along with braveness, prayers, and motion. Be blessed.”
As well as, he stays in contact together with his associates, retains up with present occasions, and binge-watches motion pictures with Marlene.
And he by no means provides up hope.
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See the NKyTribune’s story about Tim and Alyssa here.
See the NKyTribune’s story about Tim’s search for a new kidney here.
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