The Beat Goes On

So for quite a few months now, Mike and I had been wondering how the little boy who received Aidan's heart was doing. We never received any type of letter from the family and LifeSource hadn't sent us any information other than the initial letter thanking us for Aidan's donation and to let us know that it was a baby boy living in Minnesota and that he had been very sick before the transplant. We finally decided to take matters into our own hands and I contacted LifeSource to see if they could give us any type of an update on how the little boy is/if he has had any complications, etc. A week later we finally got a call back from LifeSource and the woman told me that the little boy just celebrated his 1st birthday, he is doing well and enjoys being read stories and playing with his toys. What a relief!! It gives us so much joy thinking about how a piece of Aidan is still going strong.
We really had been hoping that we would get some sort of a letter from the little boy's family at some point this year, but after doing some online research I found that alot of donor recipient families hold back writing letters for fear of opening up painful memories. That's the main reason we contacted LifeSource, I have no problem writing the family a letter, telling them all about Aidan and how happy we are that their son is doing so well. But i didn't want to do that, just in case something had happened and the little boy hadn't made it. I'm hoping to get the motivation to write the letter in the next few days. :)



On a side note, as I was writing this post I thought about one of the little boys back at the Ronald McDonald House who was waiting for a kidney transplant while we were there. We had been hoping that Aidan would have been a match for him, unfortunately he wasn't. I just checked his website and he just received a live kidney donation at the end of May! what great news!!