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Help with expenses on getting Isaiah to dialysis

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hello everyone. My son Isaiah is 7 years old. He is currently on dialysis due to his kidneys failing to work like normal. He has been needing a kidney transplant since he’s been born, and was too young at the time. So over the last 7 years of His life, the doctors and us have been doing everything we can to keep him off of dialysis and go straight for a transplant. However, due to His recent lab work, it has been determined to go ahead with the plan and start dialysis. This type of dialysis won’t be through the stomach. They have decided that he will be put on pediatric hemodialysis. During hemodialysis, a machine removes blood from the bloodstream, cleans it, and returns it to the bloodstream. Only a safe amount of blood leaves the body at one time. Before they get hemodialysis though , children will need surgery to place the hemodialysis catheter. The catheter is a soft, flexible tube placed into a large vein, usually in the chest near the heart.  He is going 3x a week Monday, Wednesday, and Friday every week to have this done. Unfortunately they can’t do it anywhere else but at the children’s hospital there. The reasoning is because there is a need for pediatric dialysis, however there’s not a huge need for it. So they collectively decided that children’s hospital in Nola would be the hospital that will train people and have the equipment. While I’m thankful that they have the equipment, the trips out there do get to be exhausting. It cost $120 a week in gas to go back and forth, $40 every other day. The funds we are asking for will be for gas to get back and forth to New Orleans and anything else that is needed. This little boy has been a fighter since birth and continues to keep fighting. We appreciate anyone that donates and if you can’t then please share and pray for him. Thank you so much for reading this far!
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    Rebecca Irby
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    Livingston, LA
    Destiny Guy
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    Franklin Irby
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