After meeting Penney in 2009 and dating for a year, 76-year-old Justin Redman, of Godley, was ready to propose.
He just hoped she wasn’t ready to say yes.
“I tried everything possible to try to talk her out of marrying me,” Redman said.
He says he just didn’t have the heart for it. Literally. At 41, Redman suffered a heart attack.
In the 35 years since, Redman has had countless surgeries and procedures to try and fix what’s broken. Doctors have told him his heart is so weak it could stop beating any minute.
“He goes, ‘I don’t think we should see each other anymore,’ and I was like, ‘what did I do,’” Penney recalled.
“I just wanted to spare her pain and hurt if I passed away immediately,” Justin Redman said.
Not long ago, however, Justin had a small, innovative heart pump called Impella installed at the Heart Center of North Texas, which gave him more time to treasure his wife.
Justin and Penney decided his health issues weren’t enough to stand in the way of how they felt.
See the full segment: Every day is a gift for this North Texas couple who knows time is running short
