Yes, Jeryn they have discussed a live donor...here is a snippet from the letter from her dad:
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TRANSPLANT OPTIONS
1. live donor
they are concerned her liver may be too big for a living donor's liver. Normally this type of cancer affects children up to 3 years old, not common at all in children of 6, nearly 7. Meaning that there needs to be enough liver left for the live donor to survive.
Secondly, a living donor must meet a LOT of complex criteria, including the fact that their anatomy must be perfect for donation - that's more complicated than it sounds as it involves blood vessels going in and out of the liver in just the right way.
2. donor registry
Their preference certainly appears to be organ donation. There will only be a few groups of 10 day windows for this to occur. If there is no liver available in that time, she will have to go back onto chemotherapy and wait until that protocol finishes before she can go back into the next 10 day window.
Only 10 people in 1,000,000 are organ donors. So for her to get a donor organ, on average 410 people die across the country each day, making this 4,100 people over that ten day break.
I am not writing this to be morbid, I am writing this to be honest and show what she is up against, to beg for your prayers, and if God - who we as a family trust in - decides to save our precious little girl that it's not a matter of chance that he has.
I'm guessing he meant to say that the tumor was too big to allow for grafting of a live donor's liver?
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