Our Story
Shantel is a sophomore in High School and hopes to become a nurse one day. She has a wonderful sense of humor, and loves music, playing the violin, sketching, and hanging out with her friends. Shantel began experiencing frequent stomach pain, nausea, and occasional vomiting while in elementary school. As she got older this progressed. We had doctors diagnose all kinds of conditions. Flu, constipation, gas, indigestion, stress, IBS, and...
Continue Reading »Shantel Crandall
Woods Cross, UT
Transplant Type: Islet Cell
Transplant Status: Transplanted
Goal: $40,000.00
Raised: $25,006 of $40,000 goal
Raised by 39 contributors
Updates
It’s been a busy week update.
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Hospital Stay is Over! On August 22nd, Shantel bumped into some of her pancreatitis friends here. Two from Utah, one from Idaho and one from San Antonio. Seeing... Continue Reading »
The First Week – Post Surgery
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Shantel is improving each day! She apparently was one of the first TPIAT patients to get a nerve block which would explain why she is more comfortable. Physical... Continue Reading »
Physical Therapy is Underway
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Yesterday Doctors made their morning rounds. Everything so far has been very normal. Through the night she remained very sedated. They are now trying to balance the pain... Continue Reading »
Surgery Update
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Shantel went into the OR at 5:45am. They gave the lab the heads up. Pancreas came be out around 11am. There was probably another 8-9 hours but things... Continue Reading »
Surgery Day
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Shantel’s Surgery Day Shantel is all checked in for the big day! She had a bunch of labs to do today and will be seeing a lot of... Continue Reading »
Surgery Rescheduled
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Shantel caught COVID earlier this month and her surgery has to be postponed until she recovered. We are now looking at Aug 13th to have the life-changing surgery.... Continue Reading »
Shantel At Camp Hope
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Shantel is in San Antonio this week so she can go to Camp Hope and hang out with other other kids with pancreatitis or that have had the... Continue Reading »