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Cord's Heart - EXCELLENT NEWS!

11/14/2015

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Hello! 
Yesterday was our first visit to the cardiologist.  Love on the wind and brilliant minds who know things about hearts are doing the trick - Cord's heart is on the mend!!!!!!!!!!  We were thrilled when the doc agreed to do a quick ECHO - to check for improvement of Cord's Ejection Fraction.  This doc is chill and doesn't like to rush - he warned against checking too soon so we wouldn't be disappointed - but after talking to Cord and hearing how he sets off the Life Vest by running - or how he wants to start exercising - the doc agreed to check because he could tell Cord was improved.  And you know it's true, his Ejection Fraction was 10% at the hospital - it is now around 25-30%!!  We were out of our tiny minds.  Cord was smiling from ear to ear.  I started whooping and hollering just after we cleared the doors of the lobby.  WOOOOOOOOOHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!  And once we got in the truck it was, "Yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!"  
So we are happy.  It is working.  The meds are working and the prayers are working.  Please don't stop sending that love on the wind - it is all around us and gives us strength.  

The doc adjusted the meds after a nice, long meeting with Cord.  He is very cool and seems confident all will go as planned.
Cord still has a long way to go and will continue wearing the Life Vest but once he is up to 40% or more - he "can kick it to the curb and never look back" to quote the doc.  The doc could see the problem with Cord's heart - and how it throws the beat off - or how the 'left bundle' wobbles.  As the meds work, this will diminish and as his heart gets stronger, could correct itself enough to operate on it's own.  If not - and after we give the meds a chance to work - a pacemaker could be in order.  But not yet - the doc is a positive guy and seems to think Cord could heal all the way and not need one so we shall be patient and see.  
We were so encouraged to get this news and will continue on course.  

Denver's Coming Right Up!  
As you know - last month - the Denver Botanic Gardens postponed our greenhouse event until November 19/20.  The time has come and we are working madly on a two day event.  We would love to see you if you are near Denver this Thursday evening,  November 19th, for a photographic story of our greenhouses and how it all happened.  The next day, November 20th from 10-3,  is a nuts and bolts workshop on sustainable greenhouse design.  Both are beautiful affairs and a part of the Bonfils Stanton Series  - this year's theme being, "Heroes of the Front Range" - and we are honored to be speakers for it.  
The lecture is Thursday evening with a meet and greet from 6-7 - then the talk from 7-8:30, along with catering both days.  It is inexpensive and always lovely to attend an event at Denver Botanic Gardens, again, we hope you can come.
Seeds
I am buried in seeds.  I hope to have as many new varieties ready for these events - especially new tomatoes - all I do is squeeze them all day long.  I will have seeds there - some saved by firefighters and some saved by me!  

Happiness to all - thank you for your incredible support - Cord is on the mend!!!!!!!!!!
Penn
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Cord working on a greenhouse design in the shop while Beau builds vents nearby.
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Squeezing a big ol' 'Delicious' tomato - to ferment the seeds in time for Denver.
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Bob and Joan Armon
11/14/2015 08:04:00 pm

Dear Penn and Cord,

Thank you so much for telling your story and updating us on Cord's progress. Your blog needs to become a book to give others courage, hope, and inspiration to carry on as you both have. Our Denver greenhouse was conceived during our class with you at Denver Botanic Gardens several years ago, nurtured by phone and email consulting with Cord during the past year, and is nearing completion of the vents. You have guided thousands of us, surely, to save and swap our seeds and to get our hands on the right tools to build our own greenhouses. What life-changers you both are! We send billows of love on the wind to both of you, your family, and your friends for full health and well-being. Bob and Joan Armon, Denver

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Penn
11/15/2015 07:56:41 am

Thanks so much for your kind words - we are hangin' in there! The wind is fabulous today!
Penn

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3/11/2016 03:27:29 am

I'm buried in seeds too nowadays:) Spring has come, and there is so much to do in the garden and the greenhouse. My mom doesn't let me go out more than for an hour, as it's a bit cold outside, but I can't keep thinking about the garden and everything. Hope it gets warmer soon.
Kelly

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    Penn Parmenter is a high altitude gardener, seedswoman and student of the earth.  She is married to Cord Parmenter - an awesome gardener, gorgeous man and a master blacksmith. Together they own and run a sustainable greenhouse design company, Smart Greenhouses LLC and Penn grows seed for her seed business, Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds.  She is a mother of three sons and an outdoorswoman.  Penn forages wild food, hunts big game, fishes, preserves, maintains a huge organic forest garden and occasionally makes dinner.  At home you can find her in her greenhouses as well as in the wilderness - nose to the ground, butt in the air, trying to identify Colorado natives.    

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