I can’t believe that summer is over and the kids are back in school. Zachary has had a rough summer with surgeries, hospital stays, and lots of procedures to see why his bladder is not working right. The Doctors are still trying to figure out what will be best for Zachary. It sounds like we might have to go to Milwaukee to see a specialist about his bladder. He had labs draw on Friday that came back a little scary for all of us. His potassium is really high and sodium is low. That could cause him to go into Cardiac arrest. His creatinine and the rest of his labs were also way off. The Doctors started him on 4 new meds and changed his Blood Pressure med to hopfully get him back on track. On Monday we are back in for lab draws again, Please pray that these meds help control his Electrolites. If this doesn’t get under control he Doctors said they will have to start him on Dilaiysis . We are definately NOT ready for another Transplant. Zachary is also on a strict diet, not that he eats alot because he is still J-tube feed . Zachary loves cheese and that is one of his restricted foods.
On the good side Zachary finally has his own room, with the help of our Kidney friends The Schmitz family. Their son Layton who is 4 just got his Daddy’s kidney 1 month ago and he is doing great!!!! Wade’s friend Dave helped out with the finishing work, Thank’s Dave.
Zachary also is starting school on Monday. Depending on his labs, If they are way off we are back in the hospital for more testing.
Our family went to St. Patricks Church on Saturday for there fall festival. We all had a great time, Zachary and Austin loved the clown show. After the show I ask them it they would donated there time for a special event for Hope Kids, which is a great organization for kids with a life theating illness. The clowns face just about fall to the ground. They are also a Hope Kids family. Their son had Luekemia and is doing great, what a small world.
On Sunday Hope Kids had there Annual Festival. The Kids all had a blast!!! They had 10 Inflatable bounchers, Mini Golf, Rock climbing wall, Petting Zoo, Horse back rides, Lots of food and the Gopher Athletes put on sport clinics for all the childern. Kiley thought it was pretty neat to meet all of the gymnast. They even spotted her on some tricks. Zachary also got to meet a lot of his favorite Super Hero’s. Check out the picture’s.
Once again our family is walking in the National Kidney Foundation walk on October 11, at Midway Stadium. If you would like to walk or sponser our family. Go to www.kidneywalk.org MN Go toTeam Zachary
Zachary’s youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLt1V56w4aM
Kiley’s video http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/auth_preview?work_id=7256395
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