Family members of Noah Markey, the stepson of soldier and Jackson native Wesley Weaver, said their prayers were answered when Noah received a kidney transplant Thursday at an Oklahoma children’s hospital.
“It all came together so fast,” Lauren Helms, Weaver’s cousin, said Friday.
Weaver on Friday said that his 8-year-old stepson, who was born with polycystic kidney disease, was put on the Oklahoma Transplant Center’s organ donor list in December. He said Noah’s kidneys were functioning at 15 percent until he received a kidney from an 18-year-old who had been killed in a car accident.
Weaver said Noah’s kidney was functioning at 50 percent one day after the six-hour surgery.
“We are ecstatic,” he said. “It’s a good sign. Everyone has high hopes that his body will accept the kidney.”
Weaver said the name of the donor was not released. He said the kidney donation saved Noah from undergoing dialysis, which would weaken Noah’s organs. Weaver said dialysis also would reduce the chances of Noah’s body accepting a kidney.
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