SEQUIM — Parents Casey Stallman and Thomas Brown of Sequim are anxiously awaiting a liver transplant for their three-month-old son Thomas, who has been in and out of Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle since his birth in mid-December.
Thomas was placed on the national liver transplant registry and he is “pretty much on the top of the list” based upon his advanced condition, Brown said. More than 17,000 people nationwide are awaiting a liver transplant, including 492 under the age of five, he said.
“He’s taken a bit of a downturn. He’s in (the intensive care unit) again. He’s OK for all that’s wrong with him. We are just hoping against hope that a liver becomes available for him,” Brown said.
The problem, besides the obvious one of finding a matching donor, is Thomas’ age, three and a half months, and his size, nine pounds.
(A fund to help pay the family’s medical bills has been established at U.S. Bank. Donations to the “Baby Stallman Fund” can be made at U.S. Bank, 101 W. Washington St. in Sequim and U.S. Bank, 134 E. Seventh Ave., Port Angeles.)
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