Help A Mother Save Her Son.

Imagine being born sick. From the very first moment that you entered the world, you had to fight to survive. IVs were inserted, blood was drawn from your thin veins. An endotracheal tube was slid into your airway and bright lights aimed at your tiny, frail body, piercing your virgin eyes. Minutes before you were warm and safe, tucked inside of your mother. But even in the womb you weren't safe. The fluid that had surrounded you for the past seven months had depleted and was now gone, allowing the walls around you to become tight and compress your body. Your heart rate began to slow and it became hard to move. Your blood pressure dropping and your kidneys failing. On the outside, doctors decide that your only chance of survival is a nearly three month early delivery.    This is the true story of my son's birth. He spent most of his first year of life in the hospital. Today he is a little over two years old. For the most part, he is able to live at home with only occasional hospital stays. The only problem is that now he is in stage 5 renal failure. He spends ten hours a day connected to a dialysis machine. The other fourteen hours are spent taking medications, receiving injections, along with physical, occupational, and speech therapy due to his weak muscles. His father created a GoFundMe.com fund-raiser because we have been given a gift. I have been found to be a perfect match to donate Roman a kidney. I have been given the opportunity to improve my child's quality of life greatly! For the first time in Roman's life he will be able to wake up and feel normal. His stomach won't churn, causing terrible reflux and vomiting, his little legs won't cramp as he tries to stand, and he'll know what it feels like to be healthy. Please help us raise the money we need to support our family through this very tough time and become part of the community who helped save our son's life.       These are only a few pictures of our son. We wanted to show everyone that even through all the adversity and pain he deals with everyday, he is still an amazing happy individual. We want to share his happyness with all of you.  Our goal is for the transplant to take place in December. Roman still only weighs around 20 pounds right now and he needs to weigh at least 22 pounds for the surgery. Its is extremely hard for him to gain and maintain any weight because he doesn't eat by mouth and tends to vomit often. This is due to his failing kidneys and the fluctuating levels in his blood. Hopefully our son has gained enough by December. For now we are going to do whatever it takes to raise the money we need for any medical bills, household bills, and for any extra medical care Roman will need following the transplant.  We will both be out of work durring this time, her recovery could take up to 3 months and my son may endure a several month stay in the hospital as well. So we need everyones help, support, and prayers. 95% of the Donations will be received by our family. 5% is taken by this site. All of the information about the Kidney Transplant and what we are about can be found at www.aKidneyForRoman.org. More information about Roman's History, his story, links to pictures, videos and more can be found at www.RomanMorris.org. We will keep everyone who follows his page at http://www.facebook.com/RomanMorrisFightingForLife, up to date with information and fundraisers and much more. Thank you for sharing your time with our family and supporting our son.