Coming Home

Landon is doing very well and the doctors in Boston have done all the test that they can, for now. If everything goes well tonight Landon will be discharged tomorrow. They have booked a flight and should be arriving in Charlotte about 5:30 tomorrow evening. I know that Jeremiah and Shelly are very tired and are looking forward to getting home and getting some rest. This all comes as a little bit of a surprise, we were not expecting them to be coming home for another week. They will need to return to Boston in about a month.
They are now cycling Landon off of his IV feedings for several hours each day. This will make it easier for them to get Landon out and go places with him. We look forward to seeing Jeremiah, Shelly, and of course Landon.
If you remember I had posted that our local newspaper was going to publish an article about Landon, a couple weeks ago. The reporter that is working on the story did not feel that she had enough information and decided to wait until she could do some interviews. She did interview Kathy, Roger, Ezekiel, and myself a couple days ago. She might interview Jeremiah and Shelly in a couple days and get some pictures of Landon. The editor has told us that it will be published in the July 15th issue of The Alleghany News.
We are planning an organizational meeting for Landon's fund raising campaign. The date we are shooting for is July 19th. This will be the Sunday after the article comes out in the paper. The meeting will be somewhere in Sparta and about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. COTA will be sending someone here to help us get organized. I hope that we can get some folks from Alexander County to come up to this first meeting. After we get organized in Alleghany we will be organizing in Alexander, also. The amount of money that we need to raise to get Landon a transplant is more than we can possibly raise in one area. We will need to organize campaigns in every community that we have any connection to.