Amazing Abby

Hello Everyone, I know it has been a while since my last post, but I was waiting to get all the details of Abby's transplant. As you know Abby finally got cleared for a transplant. We did find out that our insurance is NOT in network with any transplant centers in Texas, even after much effort from Cook's Children's Hospital our insurance would not agree to a single case acceptance either. We were left with a very tough decision, which state will we travel to have Abby's transplant. This was the hardest decision to make in life so far, after much prayer and sleepless nights, we chose the Lucille Packard Hospital and transplant center for kids in Palo Alto, California. LPH has a very high success rate for transplant and it is a children's hospital which are very important to us, and of course us having family in California too, none super close but at least driving distance away.

Abby goes in November to LPH to get her medical evaluation, see even though her kidney doctor has cleared her for a transplant the actual transplant center has to declare her healthy enough as well. Once we go in November and she is accepted to be a transplant patient, then we can have people tested to be a donor. There is a criteria for being a donor and out of everyone in our families there is one person who fits that criteria who wants to remain anonymous for now. They will be tested to see if they can be her donor, if for whatever reason they are not compatible then Abby will be on a transplant list. We will have to be ready at the drop of a hat to jump on a plane to California, and be preapared to stay in california for three months after her trasnplant.

We will do whatever it takes to get Abby her transplant, if that means to go across the world to do it then so be it! All the nurses we have talked have told us how a transplant is a miracle it itself, that as soon as that kidney is placed everything changes back to normal in a instant! Miracles come in different forms and I know her miracle is on it's way.. God will use the hands of doctors to make her whole again! She will be free to be a kid again, to play sports, to be in gymnastics and life will no longer be on lock down by 7:00 pm to put her on dialysis. All my blogs of Abby gave you a picture of her journey and the rough road she has had to walk, a walk many of us could not endure, a walk of much suffering and much hardship but through it all she has held her head high and taught me the meaning of  life! Her daddy and I have moments of reflection and  all she has endure and we weep because we can't believe how she has overcome, so many obstacles that she has faced. I've never shared this before but I remember one day the ICU doctor said we need to act fast before we are chasing bad spirits away another wards chasing death away, that's how hard Abby had it, but to see her now is evidence she is my walking miracle!

So keep Abby's transplant in your prayers, pray the potential donor will be a match, and she will not have to go on a list and her transplant will be a success!

 A lot of the traveling expenses and our 3 month post transplant stay will be out of pocket for our family, so if you would like to help out in anyway, please do so here on her blog... thank you so much for your support!

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