Transplants for Children

TRANSPLANTS FOR CHILDREN: YOUR SILENT PARTNERS THROUGHOUT THE TRANSPLANT PROCESS

Protecting their children from harm is a goal of all parents. Parents go to extreme lengths to protect their children from harm, every day. Imagine being told that your child needs an organ or tissue transplant to live. The choices you have are limited. The information you must learn seems daunting. Decisions must be made quickly. The decisions you must make are decisions that you never in your wildest dreams, thought you would ever have to make. It is life changing news that almost no parent is prepared to receive. There is no guide, procedure manual or handbook on what to do when your child needs a transplant.

To say that this process is difficult for parents, children and their families is an understatement. The whole family is affected from the moment the parents receive the news that their child will need a lifesaving transplant, to the moment a match becomes available and then life beyond the trans