WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - Baby Blake just got his liver!
Less than two weeks after we first told you about the five month old Blake Thomas’ struggle with liver cancer, a family came forward at their worst moment to help.
The Clinton, Md. boy got a transplant over the weekend, and is now recovering at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. His transplant surgeon said his prognosis is excellent. He's still in the pediatric intensive care unit and still hooked up to a mass of lines and monitors.
But his doctors say Blake Thomas is going to be fine.
“I'm very grateful for Thanksgiving this year,” said his mother Rebecca.
When we saw him two weeks ago, Blake was smiling, but struggling. Doctors had run him through five rounds of chemo to stall the tumor that was growing in his liver. It wasn't clear he could take much more. He desperately needed a transplant. Continue reading
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