Special Prayer Request

Please keep Mason in your prayers. He is rejecting his new heart and is undergoing some pretty intense treatments. The next five days are a critical time for him and his new (Easter) heart. You can read more HERE.

Rejection is scary for any transplant patient. Sometimes it's minor and can be treated with medications. Other times it is more severe and that is where Mason is. I am so scared for the day that Owen is transplanted. I know that he already has extremely sensitized antibodies (as does Mason).

Doing pre-transplant treatments, such as IVIG (immunoglobulins) and even Rituxin (chemo), they are able to put the antibodies to sleep. It also opens up the donor pool to allow patients to get a donor organ. They can come back (or wake up), and that is why there are treatments such as ATG (a stronger globulin) and Plasmapheresis (a type of dialysis that depletes the body of Plasma without depleting it of it's blood cells). Mason is currently undergoing the last two treatments I mentioned.

I am scared to list Owen for his heart. Each visit to Stanford brings new insecurities. I know that Owen is doing well right now. You just never know what will show up in an echo or on an ekg. We have been incredibly lucky up until this point. We'll know in two weeks, when we get to Stanford, what our next plan of action will be.

We can't wait to meet our friend Mason and tell him how much we have prayed for him. We pray that he will be thriving with his new heart and the rejection will be under control!!