John Rouzer, the son of Wren Coburn, of Wellston, Oklahoma, received a kidney transplant on Thanksgiving Day 2016! John and his family are so grateful for this life-saving gift and will need the help of their community to ensure he is medically and financially supported through this time of healing and adjusting. Transplants are life saving but very expensive. In addition to the extremely expensive medical bills, Wren, as a single parent, will not be able to work for a period of up to 6 months as John recovers; possibly longer if any complications arise.
On August 26, 2014 John arrived home from a normal day at school and found himself too weak to walk the distance from the bus stop to the house. His dad found him 45 minutes later resting under a tree in the yard. John couldn’t eat anything that evening and began to throw up later that night. The next day, he was at OU Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City, OK where they officially diagnosed him with Chronic Renal Failure (kidney failure).
For the past two years, he has been doing peritoneal dialysis for 8-12 hours a night. He did get peritonitis, which is extremely painful to endure, so they had to do Hemo dialysis for a few months till it was safe to return to the Peritoneal dialysis. The past several months have been pretty smooth as far as dialysis goes. The call for the kidney came on Thanksgiving eve 2016. John had only been active on the transplant list for a few months so we were a little surprised that a kidney was available so soon. John has been so positive throughout this entire journey. He is so easy going with it all. He always has a big smile on his face. He enjoys archery and basketball at school and is a big hunter that likes guns and outdoors.
