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An Interactive Graphic Overview of What We’ve Been Up to for the Last Few Years
August 23, 2009 by Jeremy · Leave a Comment
Drag and drop and click and scroll and comment and push and play your way through some of our [online] activity from the last year.
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Jeremy Courtney lives and loves in Iraq as a co-founder and Executive Director of the Preemptive Love Coalition. He's also the father of two spectacular children, and married to the lovely Jessica Courtney. When not absorbed in PLC work he can be found writing songs and singing about hope and future. |
Mohammed is Fit to Fly - Eager to See Mom, Brothers, & Sisters Tonight
August 6, 2009 by Jeremy · Leave a Comment
After an extra week of scares related to malnutrition and potential neurological problems, Mohammed is discharged and ready to go home on tonight’s flight to Iraq. Mohammed is being released today with a total correction of his heart, and though doctors were unable to put a name on the remaining symptoms related his other congenital problems, doctors are quite sure that his brain is doing well and that it is not the cause of the other symptoms.
All this amounts to very good news for Mohammed and he is very likely to have a strong, healthy future!
Follow 11-year-old Mohammed on Twitter: @mohammedgaelan. Subscribe to Mohammed’s updates via RSS here. Follow Mohammed’s thread of longer stories (with pictures) on the PLC blog here.
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Jeremy Courtney lives and loves in Iraq as a co-founder and Executive Director of the Preemptive Love Coalition. He's also the father of two spectacular children, and married to the lovely Jessica Courtney. When not absorbed in PLC work he can be found writing songs and singing about hope and future. |
Mohammed Malnourished in ICU - Doctors Marvel at Obstinate Refusal to Eat
July 30, 2009 by Jeremy · Leave a Comment
Follow 11-year-old Mohammed on Twitter: @mohammedgaelan. Subscribe to Mohammed’s updates via RSS here. Follow Mohammed’s thread of longer stories (with pictures) on the PLC blog here.
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Jeremy Courtney lives and loves in Iraq as a co-founder and Executive Director of the Preemptive Love Coalition. He's also the father of two spectacular children, and married to the lovely Jessica Courtney. When not absorbed in PLC work he can be found writing songs and singing about hope and future. |
Mohammed Recovering in ICU & Expected to Stay for a Few Days
July 25, 2009 by Jeremy · Leave a Comment
Mohammed received a full correction from his TOF/DORV and is recovering in ICU. He’s expected to sleep on the medicine through the night when his dad will join him.
His dad cried great tears of joy and happiness (and probably not a little sadness) at seeing his son hooked up to the tubes in ICU. It’s a terribly mixed feeling of relief and grief to see your child, supposedly healed, hooked up to so many monitors and sedated so heavily.
Doctors are very happy and hopeful and “all is well” with Mohammed.
Follow 11-year-old Mohammed on Twitter: @mohammedgaelan. Subscribe to Mohammed’s updates via RSS here. Follow Mohammed’s thread of longer stories (with pictures) on the PLC blog here.
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Jeremy Courtney lives and loves in Iraq as a co-founder and Executive Director of the Preemptive Love Coalition. He's also the father of two spectacular children, and married to the lovely Jessica Courtney. When not absorbed in PLC work he can be found writing songs and singing about hope and future. |
The Wait is Over! Mohammed’s Surgery a Complete Success; All 5 Defects Corrected
July 24, 2009 by Jeremy · Leave a Comment
PUSH PLAY ABOVE TO VIEW PARTS OF MOHAMMED’S SURGERY. Video shot by one of PLC’s summer interns, Benjamin Landis, from the middle of Mohammed’s surgery with Dr. Sertaç Çiçek and Dr. Ahmed Arsalan.
Mohammed’s surgery lasted longer than was expected… which should have probably have been expected when correcting FIVE different heart problems in an eleven year old boy.
His father waited for his son in Turkey. His family waited in Iraq. And even as he’s emerged from surgery there is the wait before he comes out of ICU. And once he returns to his very troubled city in Iraq, there is the constant waiting for some sort of solution - or some sort of chaos.
The wait is the hardest part… Thankfully, Mohammed came out of surgery with flying colors (none of which were BLUE). Most of the waiting is over. There is life to be lived ahead of him now!
Music Courtesy The Autumn Film
Follow 11-year-old Mohammed on Twitter: @mohammedgaelan. Subscribe to Mohammed’s updates via RSS here. Follow Mohammed’s thread of longer stories (with pictures) on the PLC blog here.
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Jeremy Courtney lives and loves in Iraq as a co-founder and Executive Director of the Preemptive Love Coalition. He's also the father of two spectacular children, and married to the lovely Jessica Courtney. When not absorbed in PLC work he can be found writing songs and singing about hope and future. |
Two Great Pictures of Mohammed’s Surgery by 20-year-old PLC Summer Intern
July 24, 2009 by Jeremy · Leave a Comment
A few pictures from the middle of Mohammed’s surgery with Dr. Sertaç Çiçek and Dr. Ahmed Arsalan taken by one of PLC’s summer interns, Benjamin Landis.
Follow 11-year-old Mohammed on Twitter: @mohammedgaelan. Subscribe to Mohammed’s updates via RSS here. Follow Mohammed’s thread of longer stories (with pictures) on the PLC blog here.
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Jeremy Courtney lives and loves in Iraq as a co-founder and Executive Director of the Preemptive Love Coalition. He's also the father of two spectacular children, and married to the lovely Jessica Courtney. When not absorbed in PLC work he can be found writing songs and singing about hope and future. |
Mohammed Heads to Surgery to Correct 5 Different Heart Problems
July 24, 2009 by Jeremy · Leave a Comment
Mohammed’s family has already been through enough, living on one of the fault line cities of Iraq’s Kurdish/Arab conflict. But today all the politics and problems of home faded into the background and one thing took center stage: Mohammed’s five separate heart problems and the question of whether or not this team of top-flight Turkish surgeons can achieve a total correction for Mohammed.
As we wait for the doctors and one of PLC’s summer interns who was taken in to photograph and observe the entire surgery to emerge again, we’ve spent time walking, talking, praying, and drink tea with Mohammed’s father. He is deeply grieved and has shed many tears in the last few hours… but his faith runs deep and he is resting entirely in the hope that God will bring his son through this very difficult surgery.
So are we….
Follow 11-year-old Mohammed on Twitter: @mohammedgaelan. Subscribe to Mohammed’s updates via RSS here. Follow Mohammed’s thread of longer stories (with pictures) on the PLC blog here.
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Jeremy Courtney lives and loves in Iraq as a co-founder and Executive Director of the Preemptive Love Coalition. He's also the father of two spectacular children, and married to the lovely Jessica Courtney. When not absorbed in PLC work he can be found writing songs and singing about hope and future. |
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