08/16/2026
Welcome home Denny 🙏❤️🙌✝️
“For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
Jeremiah 29:11 AMP
On January 29, Tishomingo County, Mississippi was covered in ice.
Denny McGuff put on his gear and went to work.
That is what linemen do. While everyone else stays inside and waits for the power to come back on, linemen go out into the storm and bring it back. Denny was an employee of the Tishomingo County Electric Power Association, and his community needed him.
While he was out there working to restore power to the homes around him, something went wrong.
Denny was electrocuted.
He was airlifted to UAB in Birmingham in critical condition. Doctors amputated his left arm. Then, as surgeons continued working to save him, they had to make another devastating decision.
His remaining hand was amputated too.
He went through at least eight surgeries. For weeks he was not fully responsive. His community in Iuka held prayer vigils for him. His family friend Kristy started a GoFundMe because that is what you do when someone who has always done everything for everyone suddenly cannot do anything for themselves.
"Anyone that knows the McGuffs knows that they do anything for anybody," she wrote.
Denny fought.
He went to Shepherd Center, one of the nation's leading rehabilitation hospitals for catastrophic injuries. Then he transferred to Pathways for the next phase of his recovery. He kept going when most people could not have imagined what going even meant anymore.
And tonight, six months after an ice storm and a power line changed everything, Denny McGuff officially graduated from Pathways.
He is showered. He is in bed watching a movie. His bags are not even packed yet for the 9 a.m. departure tomorrow morning.
He is going home to Iuka.
His family also wants the world to know about Brandi, his case manager in Georgia. They say she treated them like family, made sure everything Denny needed was taken care of, and never made the process feel like a transaction. In a system that often does exactly that, she was the exception.
Denny McGuff went out in an ice storm to restore power for his neighbors.
He lost both his hands doing it.
And tomorrow morning, he is going home.
Please share this so Iuka knows their lineman is on his way back.
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