Geek Habitat

I happened to click on a link I didn’t notice before in the template footer of my brother’s blog — a link to SaveBabyGavin.com.

Yet another wonderful little one who has gone through, and will go through, more medically than I can fathom — in January of this year, his mom donated a kidney so he could have a full, healthy kidney function for the first time in his life. Amazing, right?

More, from SaveBabyGavin.com:
Gavin was born on February 23, 2006 with end-stage renal failure, or congenital kidney failure. Gavy was born with only 10-15% function in one of his kidneys, and 0% function in the other. He was admitted to Children’s hospital of Wisconsin immediately after his birth and started on peritoneal dialysis. Peritoneal dialysis means that he is hooked up to a machine at home every night for 10 hours to “clean out” his blood.
- SaveBabyGavin.com

Without a kidney transplant, Baby Gavin would not survive. How amazing, then, that his mother was able to give him her kidney in a mother-to-son transplant on January 3, 2008? (more)

Keep thinking positive thoughts for all these wonderful kiddos and their families — Baby Nathan, Sammy (Samson), and Baby Gavin! It really does help to send more positive energies into the universe when you have a surplus and others have a short- or long-term deficit due to such weighty issues and challenges!