Abigail Taylor (picture above) is a 6-year-old girl from Edina, Minnesota. On June 29, Abigail Taylor suffered serious injuries when she sat over an open drain hole in a wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park and the drain's powerful suction pulled out part of her intestinal tract.
Since then, the poor little girl was hospitalised and was expected to need a feeding tube for the rest of her life.
After she developed liver disease, Abigail Taylor was performed a transplant of a small bowel, liver and pancreas at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Monday December 17. She's in serious but stable condition.
It will be several months before judging if the operation is successful or not. Doctors now are cautious but optimistic about her recovery.
Alan Langnas, Chief of Transplantation says, "Any patient who undergoes a combined multi-organ transplant has a number of hurdles. They have to recover from a very large surgical procedure. They have to withstand the side effects of anti-rejection medications; they have to deal with the possibility of rejection or other opportunistic problems that can occur after transplantation. So it tends to be a rather bumpy road for the first three to six months after transplantation."
Abigail Taylor will be on our thoughts and sincere prayers!
Update: Girl Abigail Taylor died at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha in early the morning of March 21, 2008. Our thoughts and prayers go with Abigail Taylor's family and friends.
Source: FOX28