Cheryl,

I know, lucky, right? I get to use kind of the same theme as two days ago on Jody’s post except there are 30 months before it.

Can you believe it’s been 3 months? I can’t. Each day while getting us all used to post-transplant follow up was long but the 3 months flew by. How does that happen?

Quinn(lin) is doing fabulously, as you know. The kidney, like I said before, can be a little temperamental (she likes her water) but all and all she is happy with Quinn.

Quinn feels fantastic! She is sleeping better than she has in years. She isn’t itchy, she can concentrate at school, she can play an entire day without rest and her personality seems to be blossoming. She’s actually quite engaging now that she has kidney function. I think I just thought she was more laid back. One of her therapists said the same thing about Quinn.

Her skin color is back. She’s growing again. She’s feeling better so she is happier. That is about as much as we could ask for, right? We are so lucky and so blessed to have you and your family in our lives. Not only because you gave my girl a kidney but because all along you and Steve have been huge supporters. We so appreciate that you two are two of the first to have enough faith Quinn and Gage would one day get the kidney transplants they so badly needed. Thank you for that because you have no idea how desperate we were for someone how loved us to believe.

Thanks for waiting for 3 years to donate a kidney to her and for your remaining steadfast in your belief if would happen.

We love you and your nearly always behaving kidney, too,

Julia, Quinn’s proud and grateful mom

A dancing girl.

With energy.

Energy to play an entire day without stopping, except to drink water

and yell  “I LOVE THIS DAY SO MUCH!”

The girl who used to be itchy and sad about that, she had sunken eyes,

we call her Quinn.

Quinnlin. Quinny B. QB. Smart. Strong. Beautiful.