I wanted to write a quick update and let everyone know that Brent and Craig are both doing great.  Recovery is slow but steady and there have not been any problems.  Brent gets blood work done Mondays and Wednesdays and sees his doctor each Wednesday.  Thursday he gets an infusion of Eculizumab which is to prevent the aHUS from coming back and causing damage to the new kidney.  This is the medicine that they toyed around with giving him a year ago, but it was just FDA approved for aHUS a few weeks ago -- again another huge praise. 

We are looking forward to spending a relaxing and quiet Christmas break here with Craig's family.  We will not even have to cook because we were just informed that we won a contest for a free Christmas dinner for 10!  Brent entered a contest by writing a paragraph about someone that deserves to have a free Christmas dinner.  Unbeknownst to me, he wrote why I deserved to have a break from cooking after all we have been through this year, and we won!

 The house looks different with the dialysis machine moved out and we are very happy that dialysis is not a part of our daily ritual anymore.  Our thankfulness is just overflowing.  Craig and his family are our heroes, what a huge blessing.