I wanted to update you on Eddie Bowerman. Eddie arrived back in the states in Mid-January and immediately received medical treatment. Here is a message from Eddie.

Hello guys! Just a quick note to let you know that my surgery went well today. The anesthesiologist was actually related to me. We have the same great-grandfather and are third cousins (insert Arkansas jokes here). I am bleeding a lot, but it is getting better. I probably have lost at least 1 pint or more of blood easily. I have lots of pain when I go to the bathroom from the catheter that is still in there (I meet with the urologists again on Feb. 23rd and they’ll take it out), but they were able to get both stones in the right kidney. I will have to go through this again with the left kidney later on most likely. He couldn’t do both kidneys because he was afraid that the bleeding could clog up both kidneys and then I would lose kidney function. So I just get through this and go through it again later on.

The urologists also said that we would do a study to see what is causing these stones and perhaps even give me some medicine to stop their formation—that can inhibit some of the calcification in my kidneys. My pain medicine is working well—just before time to take another pill I start to hurt a lot, but I’m sure as I have a few days under my belt I will begin to feel better.

My doctor’s office called and said that I should hear from the transplant center in the next couple of weeks about the appointment and I should know something before March 1st.

Eddie

Please continue to pray for Eddie and LaRhonda and they cope with these medical challenges and transition back into life in the states

-God Bless

Don Matchett