Here's Q!!!

Q Fukumoto was born to proud parents, Sarah Burnett and Koji Fukumoto, on June 11, 2006 at 5:49PM in San Diego, CA. He weighed 7 lbs 5 oz and was 20 inches long. Shortly after delivery he was discovered to have a blockage in his large intestine preventing nutrition and blood flow to other organs. He was admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Children's Hospital from the delivery room and under went surgery the next morning. He had to have another surgery on June 21, and they discovered that only 23cm of his small intestine had nerve cells. They diagnosed him with Short Bowel Syndrome as a result of congenital Hirschsprung's Disease.

Here's Q on July 16 and July 29 (with his buddy Curious George).


Here are photos of Q with his Mommy & Daddy taken at the beach on September 4, 2006.


Here's a photo of Q on October 19, 2006.

I am truly one of a kind!

Q is now in Miami at Jackson Memorial Hospital (affiliated with University Of Miami) where they found a doctor that specializes in multi-organ transplants in infants. Q is now on the waiting list for a multi-viseral transplant which requires five organs - large intestine, small intestine, stomach, liver, and pancreas. With the cost of a transplant often exceeding $500,000, many transplant patients are unable to shoulder the financial burden of such a procedure. The Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) is a national charity dedicated to organizing and guiding communities in raising funds for transplant-needy patients.