The week between Christmas and New Years was difficult. After Nate returned to ICU, his kidney's failed. He had surgery on Sunday, December 28 to place the dialysis catheter in his left femoral artery (last time it was in the right) and they began dialysis. Nate was pretty sedated and out of it, but slowly improved. They moved him out of ICU on Sunday, January 4 and were able to remove the dialysis catheter on Tuesday the 6th. He also had a very severe bacterial infection in the blood and therefore had fevers between 104 and 105 until a couple of days ago.
After the call went out for platelets, the response from everyone was very humbling. From Wednesday, December 30 to Sunday, January 4, he received 3 units of platelets and 3 units of blood daily and everyone was a designated donation for him. We appreciate everyone's efforts.
We also received the wonderful news this past week that The City of Hope identified a perfect bone marrow/stem cell match for Nate. Although a transplant is not in the plan for the immediate future, it is great to know we have someone if and when this is necessary. Nate's Dr. hopes he will be one of the 25% of patient's who go into complete remission from the chemotherapy and never comes out.
We are grateful for each one of you and for your love, prayers and support.
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That's great news that they found a match for Nate!
Hi Sparks family!!!!
My mom gave me the link to the blog a while ago and I've been following along regularly. I have you in my prayers always and I hope the best all of you. I'm glad that there is a match for Nate...even if you end up not needing it.
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