I checked on Landon and he is stable.

They have given us a family room here at Brenner Children's Hospital. For those of you that don't know, Brenner is a part of the Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC.

We have breathed a sigh of relief. Jeremiah is sleeping for the first time in several days. Kathy has taken Shelly back to the hospital in Statesville, NC to be checked out, have staples removed, and be officially discharged. When Landon was send to Winston, Shelly insisted on leaving the hospital even though she had a c-section just hours earlier. They allowed her to leave by signing a hold harmless agreement and promising to return before midnight tonight.

I have been sitting here looking at web sites trying to learn as much as I can about what the future holds for Landon. Below are some links to some of those sites. I am beginning to see why the doctors were so pessimistic. The complications are many and the life span of transplant patients or patients that continue with total parenteral nutrition (TPN, or nutrition through an intravenous line) are not that good. Well at least he has a chance at a life and the possibility of advancements in medicine.


http://www.eapsa.org/parents/resources/rotational.cfm

http://www.georgetownuniversityhospital.org/body.cfm?id=1343

http://www.columbiasurgery.org/news/stories/2006_intestinaltx.html