Joy Couch:
CLASS OF 1974
Kansas City Christian SchoolClass of 1974
Kansas city, KS
Joy's Story
Life
Hi, wow, can't believe it has been 33 years since graduation. Feels like it was yesterday. What have I been doing those 33 years...where to start... I have 2 daughters, Sandy 28 and Jennifer 25, a step-daughter, Ruthann 30. I am a grandma! Sandy has a son Deion 8, Jennifer has 2 girls, Keara 5 and Jade 10 months, Ruthann has 5 kids, Randy 14, Raelenna 9, Lindsay 8, Regan 8, Madison 3. Tracy Couch, My husband and the man with whom I spent 15 years of my life passed away 11/05. For about a year I have been dating a wonderful man, Joe.
Currently I am disabled and have been since 1992. In June after graduation I went to work for an insurance company, was with them for 18 years. I worked my way up to Underwriter Assistant, I loved my job. At the height of my career in 1992 I became very ill. Doctors were baffled and couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. In 1994 it was discovered due to a nasty little tick bite in October 1991, I had lyme disease. In 1994 I was finally diagnosed by a specialist, unfortunately too late for me. Which is now chronic lyme disease because in 1992 my HMO didn't believe lyme disease existed in Missouri, therefore I wasn't given the antibiotic t...Expand for more
o kill out the lyme disease. I am not sad or bitter. II would like to share with you "my miracle", It was Christmas Eve, 1995, I was in the ER thought I was having a heart attack. It was discovered that I had a hole in my heart--get this--since birth! It was called a PDA--between the aorta and pulmonary. The doctors were amazed at the size of the hole, amazed that years earlier I hadn't had a stroke or heart attack, and amazed that here I was 50yrs of age standing before them. A PDA hole normally occurs in newborn babies and young children, if gone undetected it is very unusual to live past 10-12 years, let alone the teenage years. I was sent to several heart surgeons and specialists, the adult cardiologists hadn't closed a PDA--ever. I was sent to a wonderful children's cardiologist/heart surgeon--I had my surgery June 26, 2006-at Children's Mercy Hospital. I am one of the oldest patients to have had heart surgery at the Children's Hospital. So there is my miracle of a lifetime. God is good, I am truly blessed. Life has been bumpy, I have chosen the wrong path many times. But, God always brings me back to the right path. Life happens. Would love to hear your life stories.
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