Kim Pegula

[Ann]

I Want to Talk to You About My Mom

 

 

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My mom was asleep when my dad woke up to her going into cardiac arrest and she was unresponsive for quite a while. My sister gave her CPR until the ambulance arrived. She saved her life. Even though she doesn’t like to take credit for this terrible situation, she absolutely saved her life, followed by the critical job performed by the paramedics who arrived and were able to restore a heartbeat.
 

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Today, my mom is still in recovery and although it is the same answer every time someone asks me, it is true, she is improving every day. She is dealing with significant expressive aphasia and significant memory issues. She can read, write, and understand pretty well, but she has trouble finding the words to respond. It is hard to deal with and it takes a lot of patience to communicate with her, but I thank God every day that we can still communicate with her at all. The doctors continue to be blown away by her recovery, considering where she started, and her determination is the driving force of that.
 

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[Uncle Joe]

Thanks for posting@Ann.

 

[4merper4mer]

6 minutes ago, Uncle Joe said:

Thanks for posting@Ann.

 

Agreed.  The whole article is more than worth the read.

[Alaska Darin]

Heartbreaking stuff.

[Augie]

This was handled as it should have been…..on the family’s terms. This is intensely personal and they owed us nothing until they found the right time and method of telling the story. 

 

 

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[RochesterRob]

  Kim is being discussed on the local radio station now.  It has been said she was very hands on with both pro teams.  I wonder how much her absence affected both the Bills and the Sabres?  I say this in a positive way as it seemed quite a few people took to her.

[Beer__League__Hockey]

Woof, that was tough.

 

We should all get CPR training & AED machines as society moves forward, it seems to be a more common life saving technique needed these days.

[CarpetCrawler]

The Damar Hamlin incident must have hit home with the Pegula family far more than we ever realized then. Prayers for a full recovery.

[Figster]

40 minutes ago, CarpetCrawler said:

The Damar Hamlin incident must have hit home with the Pegula family far more than we ever realized then. Prayers for a full recovery.

The team as well.

 

 

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[Ann]

The church is enormous and can hold a lot of people if you would like to go. If not, the service will be livestreamed here and here. 


 

Prayer and healing service planned for Kim Pegula

 

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A church in Williamsville will be holding a prayer and healing service for Bills and Sabres co-owner Kim Pegula.

On April 29, Eastern Hills Church (8445 Greiner Rd.) will host the event from 3 to 4 p.m.

 

“Worship will be led by representatives of Eastern Hills Church and Houghton University. Speakers will be leading times of prayer, and a message will be shared from the Pegula family,” the church says.

 

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[Ann]

The prayerful goal for Bills and Sabres owner Kim Pegula: 'Full recovery'
 

Terry Pegula’s ask was simple, direct and humble: The Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres owner, speaking in a recorded video message, asked fans and supporters of his wife Kim to join them in prayer for her “full recovery.”

 

That video was part of an hourlong prayer service and vigil held Saturday afternoon for Kim Pegula, who suffered a cardiac arrest June 7 on her 53rd birthday. Since then, in a battle for health and healing that has largely been private, Kim Pegula has undergone extensive therapy to heal from the effects of brain damage.

Pegula’s fight to heal and rehabilitate from a brain injury suffered after a cardiac arrest last June has been one that is long and largely private.

 

“Kim and our family have entered a new season in our lives,” Terry Pegula said in the video shown to a crowd of 300-plus at Eastern Hills Wesleyan Church. Another 300-350 people joined a livestream of the event, which was co-organized by Kim’s alma mater, Houghton University.

 

“The beginning of this season has been difficult,” Terry Pegula continued. “But we ask, with God’s help, that Kim’s recovery continues. We also ask, with God’s help, that Kim has a full recovery. We ask humbly, but we pray boldly.”

 

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[Ann]

I hope she is doing well. While she wasn't at the ground breaking ceremony Monday, Terry Pegula had a tribute to all her hard work with the Bills.

 

 

[KD in CA]

Such a sad turn of events.  It seems unlikely we'll ever see her in public again.  

[Fansince88]

This is nice!

https://www.wivb.com/sports/buffalo-bills/kim-pegula-makes-appearance-at-bills-training-camp/

[B-Man]

 

[Nanker]

I wonder if Damar went over to her. Josh did. 

[Ann]

For Jessica Pegula, some calm – and twists – in D.C. as she prepares for the U.S. Open

 

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A few days off wasn’t Pegula’s only surprise last weekend. She also learned that her dad, Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula, was taking her mom, Kim, to the team’s training camp practice in Pittsford last Sunday. That’s head-turning, not only for the public, but also for the Pegula family.

 

Kim Pegula – the team’s 54-year-old co-owner and, until recently, president – suffered a cardiac arrest 14 months ago that resulted in brain damage. Since then, she has been recovering out of the public eye – until she was spotted watching practice from an SUV pulled up to the end zone at a St. John Fisher University field.

 

“I didn’t really know he was taking her to training camp,” Jessica Pegula told The News in an interview at her Washington hotel. “He was like, ‘We’re here at training camp, and she’s doing great.’ ”

 

Jessie, as her family calls her, said her mother’s recovery has, of late, included travel from her parents’ home in Florida to Western New York – where Kim is able to spend time with her parents, Ralph and Marilyn Kerr – and to Nashville, where her brother Gordon lives and runs the Pegulas’ record label, Black River Entertainment.

 

“Getting back and doing more normal things and trying to live a more normal life is part of her therapy and rehab,” she said. “Not just sitting inside and doing PT (physical therapy) for hours, which she does. Which is great, though, because we get to actually enjoy things with her.”

 

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[Ann]

[Nanker]

First time, long time.
So which team are they selling?

Asking for a friend. 
 

I’ll hang up and listen to your answer on the air. 

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

How unhappy is Diggs going to be about this?  Is this restructuring to facilitate a trade?