{"id":123,"date":"2025-08-15T15:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamethan\/?p=123"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:51:23","slug":"heart-accepted-for-ethan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamethan\/2025\/08\/15\/heart-accepted-for-ethan\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart accepted for Ethan!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Update from Elaine as of today Friday August 15th:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok everyone&#8230; the big day has come&#8230; I got the call yesterday morning from the heart team that they accepted a heart for Ethan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s scheduled for transplant&nbsp;today at 9am at Seattle Children&#8217;s Hospital.  There is no definitive timeframe for the overall surgery, but we were told it could be 8-12 hrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been a busy flurry of activity in prepping&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethan is actually doing really well&#8230;worried, but excited to get this done and on the road to recovery!  Jim,&nbsp;Grace and I are excited too&#8230;nervous, and all the feels though! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nurses and all the staff here are just wonderful. His nurse for the night told me she&#8217;s honored to be one off his last nurses before transplant. \u2764\ufe0f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for all the prayers and well wishes so far from you all and keep them coming! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please also pray for the donor family and their loss. I&#8217;m thankful for their choice to donate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will post more updates as they come in from Elaine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update from Elaine as of today Friday August 15th: Ok everyone&#8230; the big day has come&#8230; I got the call yesterday morning from the heart team that they accepted a heart for Ethan. He&#8217;s scheduled for transplant&nbsp;today at 9am at Seattle Children&#8217;s Hospital. 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