{"id":14,"date":"2022-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforteamjackson\/2022\/11\/22\/after-transplant-day-1\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T00:00:00","slug":"after-transplant-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/2022\/11\/22\/after-transplant-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"After Transplant:  Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This morning, Jenna, Jaydon, and I came down to University Hospital to visit the boys.&nbsp; Upon entering Jackson&#8217;s room, we saw he was gone &#8230;. only to find him in Brady&#8217;s room!&nbsp; It was his second walk of the day :).&nbsp; His pain level is tolerable and his vitals continue to improve beautifully.&nbsp; The next weeks and months he will continue to be watched very closely to make sure his body continues to accept and not reject the new organ gifted to him.&nbsp; Lots of medication, lots of bloodwork, but also lots of progress!<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly just 24 hours after coming out of surgery, Brady was discharged from the hospital.&nbsp; I will upload some pictures which document his brief stay here at University Hospital:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, I have a friend who works with the kidney doctor who followed Jackson from age 9 months to 18 years, when he graduated from the pediatric world into the adult world of nephrology.&nbsp; I asked my friend to let that doctor know that Jackson had received his new kidney &#8230; which, from what I was told, put a big smile on her face.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am now back at the hospital by Jackson&#8217;s bedside, keeping him company.&nbsp; The doctors told us today that he will most likely get to go home Thanksgiving Day!&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2107\/images\/room.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2107\/images\/bell.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2107\/images\/shirt.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2107\/images\/home.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This morning, Jenna, Jaydon, and I came down to University Hospital to visit the boys.&nbsp; Upon entering Jackson&#8217;s room, we saw he was gone &#8230;. only to find him in Brady&#8217;s room!&nbsp; It was his second walk of the day :).&nbsp; His pain level is tolerable and his vitals continue to improve beautifully.&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/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-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}