in case you haven't heard

4.5 hours of surgery--$1000s
2 CT scans--$1000s more
2 liver biopsies--one through the veins into the liver and one directly into the liver--$1000s more
13 days in the hospital--$10,000s more
countless medical team members--$10,000s more and more
numerous prescriptions--$10,000s more and more
30 staples and all kinds of tubes and lines in and out of a body--$10,000s more

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Seeing my once again flesh-colored kid with white in the whites of his eyes, the recipient of a miracle, sitting on his own couch in his own livingroom watching his Utes play football only 13 days after said transplant--priceless.