Don’s Story

Site created on May 10, 2020

Welcome to our CaringBridge website. We are using it to keep family and friends updated in one place. We appreciate your support and words of hope and encouragement. Thank you for visiting. Don experienced a massive brain bleed on the afternoon of April 25, 2020. He was airlifted from the hospital in Freeman to Sanford in Sioux Falls, SD where he underwent emergency surgery to remove the large blood clot that was pressing on his brain. He is was in a coma at Sanford for over a month. On June 18, he was transferred to Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Omaha, NE. He continued to recover and improve there. On August 4 he was transferred to QLI, a skilled Rehabilitation facility in Omaha, where he is getting intensive therapy and getting stronger.

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November 04, 2022

Journal entry by Sonja Waltner —

After 10 days in the hospital in Yankton, Don has come home tonight! Thank you for your prayers and words of support! Thank you to those who visited Don and everyone who thought of us and prayed for us. Most importantly,  I thank God who has sustained us through another trying time and has answered our prayers. Please pray for us as we continue on this journey and hope that Don will be stable on these new meds.
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