"Most decisions are driven around him: where you're going, what you're going to do, what you may not do. Obviously we would do things totally different if he was a normal, healthy child. He's not involved in things that we typically would've been involved in with a 7-year-old. . . You keep going, you keep doing things. But you know what? The reality is he does fine. He compensates in every way and there's no telling what his future really holds.
"He's socially unbelievable. . . He manages to fit in no matter what the circumstance at school. . . Everywhere he walks, somebody's stopping to say hi to him. He would make his rounds to the front office to see all the ladies every day, he'd sit and eat his lunch with one of them. He does extremely well in group settings. Every year we have a transplant open house. People come over and it is always funny to see. Doctors show up and nurses have shown, but really it's teachers. Prudential's health case person came out. The person that pays the claims was coming out. People meet him and they remember him. They don't forget him in any way."
- craig, father