Reese Burdette was deemed a “superstar” Wednesday in the ninth day since she underwent a kidney transplant.
Reese, 10, traveled with her mother to Johns Hopkins Hospital for follow-up bloodwork to assess her kidney function.
“She is doing really, really well. They were really happy with how it looked, and called her a superstar,” said her mother, Claire Burdette.
Family friend Alyssa Hussey donated a kidney to Reese on Nov. 20.
The Mercersburg girl, who was burned in a 2014 house fire, had been in renal failure since September 2016.
“To look at her (now), you would not know she had any surgery, let alone major surgery,” Claire Burdette said.
Reese spent nearly two years in the hospital after the fire, ending with a splashy homecoming in her hometown. She was discharged from the latest transplant-related stay Friday.
She now will spend 100 days in isolation on her family’s farm, but can learn alongside Mercersburg Elementary School classmates using a robot with videoconferencing capabilities.
Claire Burdette said Reese’s appetite is better, and she has more energy since undergoing the seven-hour surgery.
When her kidney function was diminished, Reese was limited in how much she could drink each day. Doctors now want her to consume three liters of fluids daily to flush the donated kidney.
“That’s a challenge we can do,” Claire Burdette said.
Source: Herald Media
