Monday, July 28, 2008

We need your prayers!

We got some not so good news this past Friday when we were in Utah at a wedding. Daniel's levels didn't come back good again. They are still rising. They rose in 6 days what normally would rise in a month! His kidneys are shutting down quick. They have worked hard the last 2 1/2 years and they are tired! We need them to last 7 more weeks until his surgery. Wednesday we go to have another blood draw and we really need the level to stay the same or drop a little. Otherwise we will have to move the transplant up. His doctors are trying to avoid dialysis because he'd have to have surgery to do the peritoneal dialysis and that requires a catheter to be surgically placed in his abdomen. Well, according to what I've read, you can't use it for 2-3 weeks....cutting it a little close to surgery and making it a almost a waste to do. He has been activated on the deceased donor list from inactive status to active status. So, if for some reason a kidney comes available and we need one before Kelle could donate, we could. But we don't have to take if we don't want to. But anyhow, what we are asking for is just a little prayer to go up for Daniel that his level will be good on Wednesday. He got a priesthood blessing today from grandpa Lords.....so hopefully we have a enough faith and it's Heavenly Father's will!

Also, I've copied the link to the front page article the Fallon Free Star did on Daniel and Kelle last week. It's a nice article and pretty accurate!
http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/FALLON/807250312/1029

Thanks everyone! I'll email on Wednesday when we find out his results. We need another little miracle! I hope there isn't a quota, because we are probably pretty close to filling ours! :-)

1 comment:

Valerie said...

We will sure pray for you guys! Good luck, that is coming so soon! Hang in there Daniel!