Welcome Henry and Owen

As many of you know, we were blessed on June 10 with our twin boys' 
arrival. Magnus was delighted to be a big brother at a mere 15 months. 
The boys came early at 34 weeks, 2 days.

Henry Roy Kuntze came at 5:52 pm weighing 4 lbs. 14 oz &
Owen Harold Kuntze came at 5:53 pm weighing at 3 lbs. 12 oz.

After just over 5 weeks in the NICU, Owen was able to come home on 
Saturday night. The boys began their life at Foothills NICU and had 
recently been moved to the brand new ACH NICU. Owen was their very 
first patient to be admitted, and Henry was second. Owen was also the 
very first patient to be discharged, now about 5 lbs.

We have known since February 23rd that Henry's journey would be a 
different one. Henry has a major heart problem. It is a complicated 
heart issue with multiple issues that require comprehensive surgeries 
- several surgeries in fact. On Wednesday, Henry was airlifted to the 
Stollery Childrens hospital in Edmonton. Stollery is the western 
centre for pediatric cardiac surgeries.

Tomorrow ( Friday July 22 ) at 7:00 am Henry will be operated on for 
the first of his surgeries. It is a big surgery. Needless to say we 
are very worried, and very sad that Henry must begin his life this 
way. We are optimistic regarding his long term prognosis, and pray for the 
best for him tomorrow. The surgeons are skilled, the nurses are caring 
and the staff are all extremely supportive and loving. We have now 
interacted with literally hundreds of medical professionals all 
looking after Henry. We are lucky to have this level of professional 
support, as well as extremely blessed to have friends and family that 
support us in the way you/they all have and will.

We chose not to share this information immediately with all, as it was 
simply to hard to discuss Henry's Heart defect all the time. We hope 
you all understand and that you will support him, especially tomorrow, 
in his time of need.

We are spread extremely thin with Magnus at 16 months, Owen as a 
newborn, and Henry. We have no time to hesitate, and we are all hands 
on deck. In that, please understand that we are not able to respond to 
calls and email.

We set up this blog to help us communicate to all of you who are supporting us.

Please forward this link to mutual friends, as we have likely missed 
many that will be eager to send Henry their positive energy. If you 
would like, updates will be sent to you as they come via making this a 
choice on the blog site. We have no way to know how often we will 
update, as our priorities are clearly with the boys right now.

On the eve of Henry's surgery, we pray for a good day tomorrow, with 
skilled hands for our surgeon, and caring hands for all others, but 
above all else, strength for our little Henry.  We love all our boys so much and feel lucky that so many of you do as well.

Thanks for your love, support and prayers.

Hal and Jill ( and Magnus, Owen and Henry )

 Magnus - 16 months

Henry & Owen -- 6 weeks old