Emanuel’s surgery went very well. The new kidney is working great and Emanuel
is recuperating quickly. I brought
Emanuel home to Luis and Jessie’s house and Jerilyn and I are taking care of
him there. Ema is very much enjoying
eating all the things that he couldn’t eat in his very restrictive kidney
diet. On the way home we had pizza and
frozen chocolate yogurt for dinner… YUM!
Emanuel cannot go to school for a month and has to go back to Portland
twice a week for several weeks for checkups.
Those checkups will gradually be reduced until he only goes once a
month.
Emanuel’s father is now in Oaxaca, Mexico with the rest of
the family. This weekend they will all
travel to Ciudad Juarez (across the border from El Paso, TX) where Ema’s mom
has an appointment with the US consulate.
Hopefully, the consulate will give her papers to immediately be able to
come legally to the US. They have been
in this process for 16½ years. Once in
the US, the family has to find affordable housing.
