Possible Kidney for Samuel...Please pray!

Dear friends,

I just got a phone call from our transplant team. It seems there may be a paired exchange chain through the National Kidney Registry that could include Samuel and Hannah. This is exciting, awesome, incredible news! It is the very first and only time that Samuel's name has come up with a possible match. Due to having a very high number of antibodies, Samuel has been incompatible with 95% of the population for a long time. Last week we learned that since September, he has been incompatible with 99% of the population. So the fact that there might be a donor for him is something close to a miracle!

Nothing is for sure at this point. Hannah is on her way up to the hospital right now to have labs drawn for a cross-match with her potential recipient. Samuel is in dialysis at the moment and will have labs drawn to be sent off for cross matching with his potential donor. A chain is a fragile thing. If one link (donor or recipient) fails, the whole chain may fall apart. At this point we can only pray, ship blood samples, and wait to hear the news.

Please do join us in praying that both Samuel and Hannah would have negative cross-matches with their respective donor and recipient. We should hear about the results of the cross-match some time this weekend. I'll let you know. Pray that we would praise God, no matter the outcome.