Friday night we brought Zachary into the ER at the U of M, because his labs are not getting any better and his blood pressure was 157/108 way to HIGH!!. The DR’S started Zachary on 2 new blood pressure meds on Sat. and today we are finally seeing results. The game plan is to maybe biopsy the Kidney tomorrow and see if he is in Acute Rejection along with the chronic that he is already in. If he is in Acute they will start him on IV steriods and heavy duty Anti-rejection Meds to save the Kidney. If it is the Chronic Rejection getting worse there is nothing they can do. We just wait for the Kidney to fail and pray for the Mitrofanoff surgery to go well and prepare Zachary’s little body for another Transplant. The surgery is still scheduled for Feb. 27. Zachary is feel good and playing lots of video games. Yesterday we met another family up here with a little boy named Tyler. Tyler is in Kidney failure and his little body is struggling to reach 17lb so he can receive his second chance at life. Little Tyler reminds me lot of Zachary when he was that age. It is so nice to talk with people that are going through the same struggles. Please keep Zachary and Tyler in your prayers.http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/babytyler1 this is Tyler’s website

Stacey Elsenpeter