We had to be interviewed by their social worker. That’s part of every transplantation.You get approved two ways: you get approved medically, that you’re eligible for a transplant, and really, you get approved socially. It really had little to do with his health. It was more, will you be able to maintain the responsibility to take care of a child who has lots of medical appointments, very large medical bills, medication on a regular basis? The impact it’ll have on your other children, the impact it’ll have on your life. Are you emotionally, financially, really in every way ready to deal with that? Because otherwise they flat out said, ‘We’re not willing to do it.

“The reality is [at the hospital] he’s got people taking care of him all day long who know what they’re doing, they’re highly trained. Now I’m going to do it? It’s like, whoa! There’s that huge thing. That burden is all back on you. But you adjust and you deal. }}}