Our prayers were answered yesterday. Steve received a kidney. We got the news Wednesday night. It has been a long couple of days of waiting. We were at KU med center yesterday by 4pm to get admitted. The kidney didn't get here until 8:30pm last night. The OR was ready and waiting when the kidney arrived. Steve spent yesterday afternoon doing blood test, ekg and chest xrays.

It is bitter sweet that someone Else's tragedy is the answer to our prayers. God bless this person and there family. All we no for sure is that the kidney donor was in an accident with head trauma and the kidney came from South Carolina.

The surgery started around 10:30pm last night and the surgeon came out and talked with me at 12:30am. He was in recovery for 2 1/2 hours. Dr Nawabe said it went great fairly fast and the kidney pinked up right away which is a good sign. They did tell us that it may take a few days for it to work correctly. Before they consider it a working kidney it has to make 1 liter per day. Right now it is only making a few ounces. But they assure us it will wake up and start working.

His pain was more manageable this time than his 2 previous surgeries. He may have to do dialysis tomorrow or the next day to take off some fluid. They are still putting fluid in him through an IV because that is what the kidney likes. So he needs plenty of fluid in his body.

I have to tell a funny story that happen when we got here yesterday. We went to admission to let them no that he was here. The woman said they would be calling for him in a few minutes. There were 2 older couples sitting in admitting waiting to get a room. The one woman said to us you have only been her 10 minutes and we have been waiting all day. Steve speaks up and says to her "I have been waiting for 2 years" and the lady didn't say anymore.

Thank you and God Bless all of you that have prayed so hard for this to happen. It truly is a miracle how this works. When you receive the call it is so hard to believe and it has been so long. I will try to keep up each day with new information if there is new news.

Love Steve and Christy