{"id":6,"date":"2019-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforliamalexander\/2019\/09\/13\/liam-is-the-childrens-of-mississippi-kid-captain-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2019-09-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T00:00:00","slug":"liam-is-the-childrens-of-mississippi-kid-captain-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforliamalexander\/2019\/09\/13\/liam-is-the-childrens-of-mississippi-kid-captain-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam is the Children’s of Mississippi Kid Captain of the Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"

(From an article on the Mississippi State Athletics website<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

“Kid Captain is a collaboration between Children’s of Mississippi and the Mississippi State Bulldogs to salute pediatric patients. Their inspirational stories remind us just how truly courageous these young people are.<\/span>
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This week’s Children’s of Mississippi Kid Captain is <\/span>Liam Lamb<\/strong> of Starkville.<\/span>
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At age three-and-a-half, Liam became critically ill after exposure to a severe strain of E coli. Even with treatment, his condition worsened, and he was transferred to Children’s of Mississippi for admission to Batson Children’s Hospital. The dangerous bacteria led to numerous complications, resulting in a stay of 84 days in the hospital, most of them in the PICU.<\/span>
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Over that time, his care team treated him for a perforated bowel, internal bleeding, blood clots, and sepsis. He underwent 10 blood transfusions, and a colostomy procedure. At one point, Liam was even on life support. His parents, Ann and Michael, say he was a true fighter!<\/span>
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Finally back at home, Liam recovered strength and weight, allowing his care team at Children’s of Mississippi to reverse his colostomy and remove his feeding tube. However, the E coli had done permanent damage, leaving Liam with kidney failure for which there is no cure. Until May of this year, Liam came to Children’s of Mississippi three times a week for outpatient dialysis. That ended with transplant surgery, when Michael donated a kidney to his son.<\/span>
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Liam is on medication to protect his new kidney, and he sees a pediatric kidney specialist every month. Being so young, Liam will likely need more transplants over his lifetime. But his parents are optimistic that medical advances will lead to better options.<\/span>
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With Mississippi’s only children’s hospital and pediatric clinics across the state, Children’s of Mississippi doctors work together to care for kids at every step, in every location. Only UMMC can provide this level of help for children like <\/span>Liam<\/strong>. In fact, Mississippi State recognizes Children’s of Mississippi as their official children’s hospital.<\/span>
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Now age four-and-a-half, and with his new kidney nicknamed “Rex,” Liam is living as normal and active life as he can at home with his parents and his two-year-old sister. There, he enjoys wrestling with his daddy, closely supervised by mom. Liam also loves to swim, play with building blocks, and jump in rain puddles.<\/span>
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Have fun at Saturday’s game, <\/span>Liam<\/strong>! Your friends at Children’s of Mississippi are cheering for you!”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(From an article on the Mississippi State Athletics website) “Kid Captain is a collaboration between Children’s of Mississippi and the Mississippi State Bulldogs to salute pediatric patients. Their inspirational stories remind us just how truly courageous these young people are.   This week’s Children’s of Mississippi Kid Captain is Liam Lamb of Starkville.   At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforliamalexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforliamalexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforliamalexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforliamalexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforliamalexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforliamalexander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}