{"id":69,"date":"2025-02-20T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforshaferd\/?p=69"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:23:17","slug":"hospital-update-on-shafer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforshaferd\/2025\/02\/20\/hospital-update-on-shafer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Update on Shafer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hey guys\u2026here\u2019s an update on our sweet boy\ud83e\ude75<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 4 days of being hospitalized at Vanderbilt Children\u2019s Hospital, Shafer\u2019s labs have not improved, so he had to have surgery to put in the hemodialysis catheter. We were hoping his kidney could bounce back, but with only 7% functioning, we have to do this to keep him safe until we can get to his second transplant. His medical team is working toward getting things scheduled, but the quickest it will probably take place is early April. (we have two living donors who have been approved for now\u2026but it has been unbelievable to receive correspondence from several others who are offering to test)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will be in the hospital for a few more days\u2026then he will have hemodialysis 3x a week here in Nashville (can\u2019t do it in Chatt).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shafer is weaker today\u2026as his energy has decreased\u2026but his positive attitude & complete trust in the Lord has INCREASED\ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffb\ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffb He fully understands the seriousness of his situation, yet chooses JOY EACH DAY\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d What an incredible blessing to be his mom & watch him always find the silver lining in the midst of intense suffering\u2763\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for your many prayers, texts, calls & other beautiful acts of kindness\ud83d\udc95 He continues to say, \u201cI just feel so loved, mom\u201d\ud83e\udd7a You will never know how much we appreciate each & every one of you\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey guys\u2026here\u2019s an update on our sweet boy\ud83e\ude75 After 4 days of being hospitalized at Vanderbilt Children\u2019s Hospital, Shafer\u2019s labs have not improved, so he had to have surgery to put in the hemodialysis catheter. We were hoping his kidney could bounce back, but with only 7% functioning, we have to do this to keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforshaferd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforshaferd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforshaferd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforshaferd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforshaferd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforshaferd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforshaferd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}