Joshua Bockerstette Open Heart Surgery

David Polanco
A previous resident of Del Rio Texas now living in the San Antonio. Currently President for Spyglass Hill Condominiums, and partnered with Emocium Inc.

Joshua Bockerstette Open Heart Surgery

May 19th, 2006 7:49:36 pm - Subscribe
Mood: tired
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Entry is in regards to Priscilla's co-workers son under going open heart surgery at 3 1/2 years of age. Joshua needs O negative blood donations to assist in the procedure.

As many of you may have heard, our former co-worker JR Bockerstette's son, Joshua (age 3 1/2), will be having his third open-heart surgery on June 7th. Josh will also have a heart catheterization procedure this Friday, 5/19. JR and Tiffany appreciate all of the support and encouragement that each of you have provided to them and their family (Ben age 2 1/2, Lily age 1) over these past years. They ask for your prayers over the next several weeks. Obviously this is a very serious surgery, so their time and energy will be limited in the post-op phase. I have volunteered to serve as JR's contact for sending updates on Josh's condition and recovery.

It would be helpful if you would donate blood in the next few weeks. You can visit http://www.bloodntissue.org/locations.asp for times and locations near you. You don't need to identify any certain patient. However, if you or someone you know has blood type "O Negative", JR would ask that you donate at the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center Headquarters building on I-10 at Park Ten Blvd or the Methodist Healthcare location in the Medical Center. It is very important that you donate, massive bleeding is a common occurrence as a result of this surgery. A young patient in Michigan had this surgery recently and required 268 units of blood and blood products in just ten days.

You have two options for receiving updates on Joshua's surgery and recovery:

1) Visit the "carepages.com" website as described below. JR and/or I will post updates as necessary after the surgery and while Josh is still in the hospital.

2) If you don't want to do the website thing, I will also be preparing an email update for the period after the surgery and while Josh is still in the hospital. Just let me know if you prefer this option and I will add your name to my email list.

Thank you for your support.

TrÃ©s Hargis
Associate Director - Financial Analysis
U-verse and DISH products
Phone 210-886-4287

"Carepages.com" website procedures:
Goto "carepages.com"
Click on the "New Visitors and returning members" link
Click on the "Sign up" link and follow the instructions
You can select to receive an email each time a patient update is posted

After your registration is complete:
Goto "carepages.com"
Click on the "New Visitors and returning members" link
At the "Enter CarePage Name" prompt, enter "JoshuaBock"
You can click on the "Patient Update" title or the "More" button to see all of the postings to date
You can also click on the "Messages" section to post your own encouraging words

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jim - May 19th, 2006
Wow, best of wishes to them. It is tough dealing with that my dad under went open heart surgery for 5 bypasses last June. That was scary especially with the picture of your dad having a bunch of tubes in him...not right, he is suppose to be supernatural =\

--Jim

anonymous - January 09th, 2007
Well I came across ur story and I send my thoughts and prayers to one Bockerstette to another !!!

Danielle bockerstette from st. Louis

anonymous - September 21st, 2007
i don't know if this is all still going on, but I am also a fellow Bockerstette! My prayers are with you!
Elizabeth Bockerstette, St. Louis

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