Restoring Hope Transplant House

05/01/2026

A little extra special when the two families they feature are transplant families who stayed at RHTH!❤️

UW Health is the academic medical center and health system for the University of Wisconsin.

04/20/2026

There are a bunch of great nurses who follow along here…with gratitude to all of you who help to make UW Health one of the finest transplant programs in the entire world. We appreciate you all and look forward to stopping down to visit in the coming days!❤️

04/20/2026

Appreciate Steve and Diane stopping by today with this amazing donation from the Arlington Lions Club. 24 members strong doing amazing things to help make our communities a better place. We appreciate you all so much!❤️🦁

04/19/2026

Thanks to our friends at Central Wisconsin Gift of Life for an amazing day yesterday up at their annual Scavenger Hunt. Proceeds from this fun event benefit Restoring Hope Transplant House so we are do grateful to the organizers, volunteers, participants and sponsors who helped to make the event such a special gathering! So good to see everyone!❤️

04/05/2026

Lemon cake and lemon gelato for breakfast…can’t beat that!🎂🎉

01/28/2026

Our RHTH heart transplant friends Scott and Denis are featured in the Wausau Daily Herald today…great read on some great friends!❤️

12/24/2025

This past week, we lost one of our favorite guests ever unexpectedly. They were here way back in 2013 and became very dear friends. It was devastating news and really took some joy from our holiday spirit. So incredibly grateful for so many amazing acts of kindness here at the this week to help get us back into proper holiday mode once again. Felt so good to laugh and smile again!

Wishing you all the very best this holiday season…I appreciate your loyal friendship, incredible kindness and support for the house!❤️🎄

12/14/2025

This weekend was one of the most satisfying moments in my nearly 13 years at Restoring Hope.

About 400 days after our friend Scott’s heart transplant, he was finally all set to get back into refereeing basketball games for the first time since his transplant. Even though it was way up in Wausau, there was no way I was going to miss that game after living with them through much of their transplant journey.

Before heading up to Wausau for the game early Friday, several members of Scott’s heart transplant team at UW Health took time to sign this poster I left up on the floor earlier this week to surprise him and wish him well.

What an awesome weekend for us as a transplant family and community to not only see Scott get back to doing what he loves, but also see his amazing wife be rewarded for all of her sacrifices along the way and to see the heartfelt love and support from everyone that helped get Scott to this moment. It was a beautifully perfect weekend up in the Northwoods!❤️🏀

11/11/2025

One of my favorite gifts ever in our almost 13 years of hosting transplant families…a beautiful new handmade sign courtesy of our talented Lions Club friend Al using cedar for the sign face and oak for the bracing with some incredible help from Kyle and Eric at Norsemen Wood Design who lasered the house and stenciling. The sign was then beautifully painted and given a natural stain to seal the wood followed up with three applications of shellac to protect from weathering at Al’s Wood Shop.

I understand Al’s wife Nancy also helped to make this all possible behind the scenes. Al and Nancy’s daughter Darcy works at UW Health with so many of our heart and lung transplant families…so this is a particularly meaningful donation for them.

So beautiful…we are so happy with this great surprise today to go along with our new roof, soffit, fascia and gutters recently. The house looks so beautiful again!❤️

10/31/2025

We had such a blast carving pumpkins this week with one of our visiting families…think we really crushed it this year with the creative pumpkin we named Transplant Tim. Happy Halloween!🎃

09/15/2025

Appreciate all the love, support and kind words this past weekend at the Live Love Donate Inc golf event in Franklin and at the Madison Heart Walk in support of our heart transplant recipients and support teams. What a fun weekend…thank you all!❤️