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One Year Later!

Today is a monumental day for us - the one year anniversary of Brady donating a kidney to our son, Jackson! It's been a year of monthly blood...

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3 Months!

Today marks three months since Jackson received his kidney transplant, and he is doing fantastic!!  The transplant team is pleased with his recovery, progress, and kidney function -...

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Six-Weeks Later!

Gosh, here we are six-weeks post surgery.  Both guys are feeling great!  Brady returns to work this week, and Jackson has started the job hunt!   Doctors are continuing...

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Plugging Right Along!

We are coming up on the one-month anniversary of the transplant surgery!  In some ways it seems like yesterday, in some ways it seems forever ago.  We continue...

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One Week Later!

Yesterday marked one week since the transplant, and things are going well here at home!  Both Brady and Jackson had checkups today and both are healing well.  While...

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First Day at Home

  We had a very good first 24 hours at home!  We did have to go back to the hospital for our first post-transplant clinic visit, but we...

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HOME!

    Jackson is home!!  This morning we had our last of the electrodes removed .... the last of his IVs removed ... the medication delivered ... ditched...

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48 hours later ….

Hello again!  My apologies if I am posting too many blogs, but I am just so insanely proud of my boy!  Here we are, 48 hours after surgery...

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One more for day 1

I was waiting until Jackson gave the okay to post a picture ... as I sit here with him at the end of the first full day with...

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After Transplant: Day 1

  This morning, Jenna, Jaydon, and I came down to University Hospital to visit the boys.  Upon entering Jackson's room, we saw he was gone .... only to...

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