10/24/2021
As you may know, Yi is in need of a liver transplant. We found out that he has liver cancer in august last year. And he is currently waiting for a match with a living liver donor, and that is the only chance he has to be cured.
We are pursuing a living liver donor for many reasons. The wait for a deceased liver is indefinite no matter which hospital we are working with. Also, Yi has a really small window to do the surgery before the cancer cells spread onto his other organs, and that would means he will lose his lace chance. So Yi and I would like to fight till the very end to pursue this only chance of him being cured from cancer.
Below are his newest updates:
1. Yi started a new round of chemo yesterday, and the good news is the blood test result come back looking normal, meaning everything is still under control. He will have a CT and a MRI scan on November 9th to check if there is any changes in the tumor.
2. His hand foot syndrome (extreme dry skin, peeling, cracking and other inflammation) from chemo got worsened a little, and the hospital is considering stopping/ pausing his medication, but this means increasing risk in keeping his cancer under control.
3. In the past 2 weeks, we’ve been getting a lot of help from a lot of people as our story being shared and spread on social media, and through words of mouths. It includes people from the medical world or has connections with the medical experts sending us advices, introducing us to also reach out to hospitals and doctors that are worldly renowned for treating liver disease (especially when it is from the spread of colon cancer). We got so much for insights and more faith from learning from from theirs professional aspect.
4. The good news is, we have several donors that reached out to us who are willing to donate. We are extremely moved and encourage by that. But to ensure the safety of both the donor and the recipient, there is a long and length screening process, and means the matching rate is quite low. That is why we are still searching for more donors. Please keep on getting the words out for us. And don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you’re still considering donating. We can still use your help!
5. The Northwestern Hospital has a lot of delay in theirs screening process due to theirs policies and restrictions from the insurance. If you are a donor, and have been reaching out to the hospital (through phone calls and emails) but haven’t gotten a response back, please reach out to us directly through email, Instagram DM. If you already submitted the form and questionnaire to the hospital, they might follow up with you to schedule you a physical exam. Please keep an eye on that and try to schedule the exam as soon as possible in order to win some more time with us. Thank you so much for your love and support.
6. If you do not wish to be a donor, but still want to help us spread the words, we will appreciate it just as much! We've created a FB page and a website to spread the word out. We would really appreciate it if you could follow, share, like the page, and ask others to do the same. The more people who see his story, the greater our chance of finding a match!!!
Here are the links:
www.liverforyi.com
https://www.facebook.com/liverforyi/
https://www.instagram.com/findaliverforyi/
That also would be great If you could help spread the word in other ways than through social media, such as religious institution, charity organizations, give the flyer for your friends, family to post on public bulletins (like at Starbucks, places of worship, your gym, etc). I attached the flyer to the email, please feel free to use it.
Again, Yi and I want to express our most sincere gratification for all your help!
