This site is dedicated to little Zachary Elsenpeter. Zachary is a 5 year old boy who received a kidney transplant from his father Wade Elsenpeter on December 1, 2004.

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Dec 02, 2009

Zachary is back in the hospital U of M 5a 219…ONE ROOM DOWN FROM YESTERDAY

Last night Zachary was discharged from the hospital, he did awesome for the PH test. We should get the results back some time tomorrow.

Less than 20 hours later Zachary is back in the hospital… Last night at about 3am Zachary woke up coughing pretty bad, he aspirated . When he woke up in the morning he looked awful and had a fever of 100.7. I brought him in to his primary and they did a chest x-ray and confirmed that he has Pneumonia in both lungs again! He also has a nasty bladder infection. So here we are back in the hospital. When we got here Zachary’s eye started to pour out green junk! And he has hives on his back, arms and tummy. He is MISERABLE! They started him on Oral Antibiotics, Tamaflu and eye drop Antibiotics a long with his other 39 medications. I feel so bad for him .. He looks and feels awful! They drew blood cultures and they swabbed him for all nasty viral infections .

Please pray that Zachary can fight this nasty infection.. Zachary is very immune suppressed so this is going to be hard for him. He is running a fever 102.2 and his sats have been between 87-93% . Zachary’s Blood Pressures are back up again 130/90!

Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers,
Stacey

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Leave a comment | 4 Responses to “Zachary is MISERABLE!!”

Stacey,
My heart aches as I read this update. I am so sorry to hear Zachary is feeling so bad. I am praying he feels better and there are no further complications. Please try to get some rest (I know it is easier said then done:) It just seems that Zach can not catch a break lately. Praying for major healing.
With Love from AZ,
Jade

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Manuela Groth

Dear Elsenpeter Family,
I have been misdirected to this website a while ago and I have been following Zachary’s story ever since. Zachary is in my thoughts a lot. I am so sorry to hear he isn’t feeling well. I will keep all of you in my prayers. My two year old son and me always add Zachary to our little prayer at bed-time.
Praying for you and thinking of you,
Manuela

Mike and Jan Borden

We are so very sad for everything Zachary and your whole family is going through. Our prayers will keep coming. Mike and Jan

Kelly Downie COLES Foundation

I am so sorry to hear that Zachary is sick and back in the hosp. He is such a fighter. I am praying that he gets well soon!