Jan 25th Was Kiley’s 9th Birthday and the Best way to celebrate is having your own private suit at the T-WOLVES game. !!The T-Wolves honored Zachary has a “HERO IN THE MAKING” Zachary had a blast!!!! Our whole family watched the T-WOLVES warm up, we got lots of great pictures and Zachary was more into the Cheer Leaders than the players!!! At half time They told Zachary’s story and honored him with a Autograph ball and a Team Jersey with his name on it. The crowed gave him a standing ovation, that put me in tears. They also wished Kiley a Happy Birthday, Kiley has a hard time with Zachary always getting all of the attention, especially having this big event on her Birthday . So thank you everyone who made Jan 25th special day for Kiley too.

Thank you HopeKids for choosing Zachary for this special event.

This has not been a good year for Zachary. For the last 3 weeks Zachary’s labs have been AWFUL! It is so hard knowing that we are heading down that road again. That Awful Transplant road. It breaks my heart, Zachary is only 5 years old, he doesn’t understand. We had another Doctor’s appointment today with one of the surgeons that will be working on Zachary. Doctor Hess will make the first incision and remove all the scar tissue and adheadson’s around the large and small bowel, he will also redo Zachary’s Nissen that he blew 2 years ago. Hopefully to get him off his J-tube feeds and help with his bowel obstructions.  Then the Urologist will give Zach a Mitrofanff. That will help Zachary empty his bladder and relieve the pressure on his Kidney. This is a very BIG surgery for Zachary. Each of the surgeries can take about 3-4 hour , so Zachary could be in surgery for 5- 10 hours. We hope that having the Mitrofanoff will give him more time with this Kidney. Our date for the surgery is Feb 27th, he will be admitted the night before for fluids and a bowel prep. I will try hard to keep you all posted during the surgery. We  need lots of prayers because some of the Doctors call this a gray surgery. So this is very scary for all of us. Zachary will not be a candidate foe another Kidney Transplant until he has this surgery, so we need to follow are gut feels and give Zachary the best quality of life we can.

Thank you,

The Elsenpeter Family