Kisses for Kenzie

05/16/2023

Here is the clip from our interview with WCCO-TV this morning!!!! We had a blast being in the studio with the WCCO team!!! There is still time to sign up for the and join team Kisses for Kenzie!!!! SEE YOU SATURDAY!!!🩷🤩

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/live/video/20230516150129-the-twin-cities-heart-walk-set-for-this-weekend

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02/22/2023

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN!!! This year's Heart Walk is MAY 20th! Because of you, we're a relentless force in raising awareness on heart health!! Click the link and join team Kisses For Kenzie today!!! ♥️

The Heart Walk is the American Heart Association's premiere event for raising funds to save lives from USA's #1 and #5 killers - heart disease and stroke.

02/01/2023

This is Complete Heart Block. This is Atrial Septal Defect. This is Cardiomyopathy. This is Kenzie’s reality. This is CHD. This is American Heart Month. Join me this month in raising awareness of Congenital Heart Defects and heart health. Wear RED to raise awareness 💔

11/18/2022

Wanted to just pop in and let you all know that Kenzie has been doing wonderfully so far in 2nd grade! She is loving science and math!! We are looking forward to her baby brother’s much-anticipated arrival in early December!! Hope you all have a very happy and healthy holiday season coming up!

05/04/2022

And she’s DONE with recovery!! Thank you thank you THANK YOU to everyone for all of your thoughts, prayers, gifts, cards, and love throughout the entire process! It all truly means the world to all of us!

Recovery with an almost 7 year old, who is normally very active, sure isn’t easy, but we made it through! Kenzie had had movie nights, did a lot of arts and crafts, played games, baked with friends, went to a couple movies in the theater, visited SeaQuest, worked on reading and writing, hit up Dave & Busters a couple times, cheered on the Twins, walked around the mall, and more!

Kenzie is now able to ease into being her normal self again! She has been very patiently waiting to be able to do recess and gym at school, along with her weekly gymnastics class!

Thank you all so much again for the love and encouragement! You all are simply the BEST!! ❤️‍🩹

03/21/2022

We are HOME!!! We cannot tell you all how great it feels to get Kenzie home and recovering. The next 6 weeks of no activity will be interesting with our wild gal, but luckily we have lots of books, games, coloring books, crafts, and trips to the zoo and aquarium in store! Thank you all so much for continuing to cheer Kenzie on in her journey! We are so so lucky to have each one of you as part of the family! We cannot thank the entire CVCC staff at Children's Minnesota enough for taking such amazing care of our girl throughout every step. Dr. Moga is a cardiological magician, and we just LOVE him. Him and Kenzie have a special bond that we are so thankful for too. She is one incredibly strong girl and we are so proud of her! Now onto eating Uncle Jeremy’s soup and more FaceTime with her “fur sister”, Omni! 🍀❤️ Jessica Baker Matt Lund Reed Goodman

03/20/2022

🙌🏼🙌🏼Big day today🙌🏼🙌🏼 Kenzie (and her X-rays) finally convinced Dr. Moga to take her chest tube out after dealing with days of a collapsed lung, walked all by herself (no holding hands) around the CVCC unit, painted some more projects, and finally felt like eating some food!!!….. There’s also some rumors that we might be able to bust out of here TOMORROW!!!!🤞🏼🤞🏼Jessica Baker Reed Goodman Matt Lund

03/18/2022

“Kenzie Bear” says we need everyone to PRAY FOR P*E! It’s been another long and exhausting day for our girl. Started the morning off with a straight catheter, after a couple failed attempts at going on her own. A lot of urine came out with that but she hasn’t been able to go since. She hasn’t had much interest in eating or drinking but we are working hard on that, starting with some IV fluids overnight.

She went for one tiny little walk this morning, which was HUGE for her recovery, but has since has been in quite a bit of pain throughout the rest of the day and not really interested in much movement. We all wouldn’t want to do much either with that pesky chest tube still in! Mentally and physically, Kenzie is just done for today and that is A-OK! She got a good long nap in and ate some meatballs tonight and we are happy with that!

Baby steps are still steps, and we are so proud of her! This girl’s determination and fight shine through every step of her recovery! She simply does not give up and is INSANELY STRONG! Tomorrow is a new day for more strength and steps on the road to recovery! 💪🏼💪🏼 Jessica Baker Reed Goodman Matt Lund

03/18/2022

What a long, hard day for our sweet Kenzie girl. Overall, everything went good with a few hiccups along the way. Luckily her team is on top of it and we are finally on the road to recovery now. And, in true Kenzie fashion, nothing can stop this girl from being a DIVA (i.e. the last photo). 🦄💁🏼‍♀️

Thank you all from the very bottom of our hearts for EVERYTHING you all have done to get us through today. The many texts, calls, posts, photos, cards, gifts, and words of encouragement have been the only thing to help all of us get through with so much strength. Without you all and your support, our team would not be nearly as strong. We are forever grateful ❤️

Love to you all as we try to get Kenzie some much needed rest! Reed Goodman Matt Lund

03/17/2022

Surgery day 🍀❤️ 🙏🏼 Reed Goodman Matt Lund

03/16/2022

We love AHA so much! What a wonderful company filled with amazing people ❤️

We’re rallying around an incredible heart hero as she undergoes heart surgery tomorrow. You’ve got this, Kenzie! 💪 ❤️