It's happened, Shawn got a double transplant!!!! We got the call Sunday evening @ 7:55 from Baylor in Dallas. We were down there by midnight and had a night full of tests. By morning his family arrived and we waited for last minute tests on Shawn and the donated organs. His surgery started at 1:44 pm on Monday December 13, 2010 and was expected to last around 6 hours but he was out of surgery at 6:30pm. He was in tremendous pain right after he woke up which was expected, and was in ICU til Wednesday evening. So far so good, his kidney produced 10 liters of urine the first 24 hours, and his pancreas his keeping his blood sugars under 160 so far. He has been talking since the first night and has been alert and is really looking good. This all seems like a dream and i don't know if I have even absorbed everything, it just happened so fast. He was on the donor list for month!!
I am so thankful to the donor's family for giving the gift of life to my husband Shawn, there are no words that can express the gratitude we feel for them and many thoughts and prayers to his family. We do know that the donor was a 20 year old male from the Beaumont, TX area that was in a car accident and suffered head trauma. I am pretty sure I found out who the young man was by doing some research online it has been very emotional finding out things about him. I have many posts from the past 3 days on my facebook page if you would like to read up on the details.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the kind thoughts and prayers as our family goes through this life changing experience. This is going to be the BEST Christmas EVER!!!!!
Felicia Hull
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