Mario Tlaloc Araujo

Mario was born 4/25/07,diagnosed with Biliary Atresia 6/26/07. BA is a disease (~1 in 15K births) that causes inflammation/obstruction of the bile ducts resulting in back up of bile in the liver which destroys the healthy liver. 7/1/07, Mario had a surgical procedure called a Kasai and was added to the Liver transplant waiting list on 12/4/07. He received his first gift on 3/23/08 but was relisted due to a clotted hepatic artery. He received his second gift on 4/14/08. This is his story...

Monday, October 1, 2007

Quick Update

I'm having a crazy week at work so this will be brief, but wanted to let everyone know that the transplant team met and discussed Mario today and have decided NOT to list him YET. They are sending us more details about their decision, but it sounds like they want to evaluate again in 30 days with new labs, etc. since he is still gaining weight and doing relatively well on his vitamin supplements. I'm suprised because everyone we talked to seemed to think they'd go ahead and list him...but I guess the good news is he gets some time to grow while things are functioning relatively well still. More later....P

1 comment:

Tam said...: Hi Phoebe & Pee Led .. that sounds like good news. Fingers crossed for more healthy weight gains over next month. Sending you lots of love from Syd... Tam, Shann & Lachie xxoo; October 7, 2007 at 5:04 AM