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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...