First, I want to thank all of you who have helped us in our search for housing for our planned stay in Baltimore. It was wonderful to know that so many people were working on this for us! Through this, we were also able to make some great contacts in the Baltimore area and make some new friends in Winston-Salem as well.
I wanted to let everyone know that we have secured a place for our planned stay in Baltimore and at a reasonable price. The place we are renting is approximately 10 minutes from Johns Hopkins Hospital.
We will not be receiving mail directly at our Baltimore location, but we will have somebody checking our mail at home and shipping it to us periodically. So if you want to communicate, please send mail to our home address or emails to rusty.rose@hanesbrands.com.
There won't be a lot happening between now and surgery, but I will begin updating this blog more frequently once the transplant takes place. Thanks again for all of your support and prayers!
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Good News - Transplant Scheduled!
I just wanted to let you know our good news. We have a scheduled date for Karen’s third kidney transplant. The date will be February 19, 2013 and we are so excited.
As you may know, we have been working with Johns Hopkins in Baltimore on this transplant. The transplant will be done at Johns Hopkins and will involve a three-way paired donation. As I have explained to some of you in the past, this is basically a kidney swap that allows each recipient to get the best match possible. So this will actually involve three pairs of donors/recipients. Our donor is a friend of ours but has asked that they remain anonymous. This is such an incredible gift so we certainly want to honor their wishes.
Please pray that all 6 participants will remain healthy so that the surgeries can take place on schedule. And pray for great outcomes and recoveries for all.
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