This site is dedicated to little Zachary Elsenpeter. Zachary is a 8 year old boy who received a kidney transplant from his father Wade Elsenpeter on December 1, 2004.

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Jan 16, 2005

I am happy to say we have been home for eight consecutive day’s. Hurray! Zachary is getting stronger everyday. He can scoot around on his butt, by bouncing himself up and forward. He is able to get from a sitting position to his knees. Also, he is starting to crawl backwards. Zachary is also becoming quite a hairy little guy. This is because of the predisone( a steroid) he takes. I hope that doesn’t mess up his Olympic eligibility. His eyebrows are becoming very dark and hair is growing on his head as well as his back. He will be on predisone his whole life. They will ween him down to a lower dose. Then he won’t be such a hairy little dude.

Kiley seems to be doing better as she is getting over her bladder infection. She had a sleep over at the neighbors last night. I checked on her this morning, when she heard it was me, all I heard was “I don’t want to go home”.

Stacey and I are taking advantage of these day’s home trying to get the house organized. The BLACK HOLE as my dad refers to it. That is really not fair though, time has not cooperated with us since we moved in.

Wade

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Mark Frederick

Hi Wade:

Glad things are continuing to look up for Zacahary. I’ve been on Prednisone a few times myself. I’ll warn you about one other side effect I experienced whenever I was on it. I wanted to eat everything in sight! It really increases the appetite although with Zach, he isn’t eating by mouth anyway so maybe it won’t be an issue. Thanks for keeping the updates coming.