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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Zach's Montage
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Mar 04, 2005

Zachary’s development is surprising us everyday. He just completed his morning stair climb. It is 15 stairs and the only obstacle is his pajama bottoms. He is crawling, but still prefers to scoot on his butt. Zachary is pulling himself to standing and climbing up on the furniture.

We received news last Friday that Zachary has tested positive for Epstein Barr virus. They told us before transplant he had a chance of contracting EBV. He contracted this virus because I had anti-bodies for the mono-virus and Zachary did not. The virus can cause lymphoma cancer cells. He is being treated with a drug called valcyte which is a cancer fighting drug and is still relatively new. He is tested monthly, so they are confident that they caught it early and told us to stay off the internet so we don’t stress ourselves out. vb dvxc hbh vccvvvvvvvcc . Oops, Zachary’s typing.

Kiley is doing pretty good, she is able to write the alphabet and enjoys putting puzzles together. This is when she’s not on the computer, we finally had to set some time limits.

Stacey and I went to the Dr Tues and got put on an antibiotic ourselves. Sore throat, snezzin, runny nose, all that good stuff. Besides that, I ended up getting a hernia after the transplant, so that needs to be repaired. They are supposed to call today with a date. My boss has already volunteered take care of it for me, but I will leave it to the professionals.

All things considered we are doing pretty well, I am so grateful to all the people at Qwest for donating vacation time to me to be home with my family.

Wade

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