Pacie's transplant

Thank G-D, I have only good news to report.

At 5:30am Aliza arrived at the hospital and was admitted for her prep. It took about a half hour for the surgery team to come to get her. After Aliza was taken away it was time to wake Pacie up so that he could put on tephilin and daven. He woke up said modeh ani and washed negelvasser. Half way through davening they came to get him. They needed to wait about 10 minutes until he was finished. We packed up our stuff and headed down to the surgery prep. Room. As soon as the implant team got word that Aliza's kidney was ready to be removed Pacie was taken in for his surgery.


At about 12 noon we got word that the kidney removal went well and that the transplant was now proceeding. By the time that Aliza got settled into her room I got called down to meet Pacie in the recovery room. At some point I needed to leave the recovery room and go get something from the car, sure enough I hear a page for "Dr. Howard, Dr Fine, Dr. Howard". I turned to see who these great doctors were here to see and sure enough they had come all the way from Odessa to see Pacie! Howard and Tzvi were able to convince the nurses to let them attend Pacie. Their well known medicine helped Pacie get well enough to be transferred to PICU.

After getting settled in, Pacie's new kidney began to function as was hoped for. His creatinine began to drop almost immediately and as of this time his creatinine is almost at normal. If I am not mistaken his kidney function is now better than it has been since his problem was diagnosed in 2000.

At about 5 safta came and sat with Pacie and at about 7:30 the famous Drs. arrived again. Zaidy and Grandmommy visited also.

Pacie rested after everybody left and has been doing great.

Aliza has had a pretty much parallel recovery. She got out of bed today and began walking in the hallway. She hopes to visit Pacie sometime today.

I have some pictures which I will post when I get the camera's cable from home.

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Thank you for all of your blessings and good wishes.