Jared's Dad got his new kidney.

Jared's dad has been on the list for a kidney transplant for a little over a year and he finally got his new kidney earlier this week. Here is his wonderful story.

We visited Russell the day after his surgery, he did very well and is expected to go home real soon. It was surreal being there on the 10th floor at IMC, knowing we will be there ourselves in the "hopefully near" future. A liver transplant is much more extensive than a kidney transplant so Jared will be there a lot longer than Russell and Debbie, but they have an awesome transplant team so I know he will be in good hands.

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I accidentally deleted my last post. Not important enough to rewrite it so I will move on. We had a clinic appointment yesterday, everything went well and Sue (our transplant coordinator and advocate) will present our case to the board (the team of transplant doctors and specialists) for approval and listing. This is just how they do it, they know he needs the transplant but they have to follow protocol. We should be hearing from Sue soon to find out how it went and if there is any other tests they need before they go ahead with listing. Jared has a pretty straight forward case so she doesn't anticipate any issues.

That's all for now :)