Juan’s Journey to a Kidney Transplant

08/12/2025

God is Good All the time 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Juan is doing well and his new kidney is doing great!!

Teisy is doing well and resting ❤️‍🩹

We appreciate all the prayers, calls and messages, the love really is helping all of us!

Please keep them both in prayer for minimal pain and maximum recovery!

07/26/2025

We have been asked for ways to support our family during this period. I have established a GoFundMe account to assist with post-transplant expenses. If donation is not possible, please consider sharing our campaign. With the transplant scheduled in 16 days, we are experiencing a range of emotions but lack of support is not one! Thank you to all our family, friends and community for your support!

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07/15/2025

Look at GOD!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Now that it is officially scheduled and confirmed we are thrilled to share Juan Grimaldo-Martinez is getting his Kidney, from none other than his little sister Teisy Martinez ☺️. We couldn’t be more delighted and blessed to know that his sister has chosen to give her brother a part of herself so that he can have a better quality of life! For those who have prayed alongside side us, THANK YOU! To those who have helped us physically or financially, THANK YOU!

This notification doesn’t mean Juan’s Journey to a Kidney Transplant is over, it is far from that it is just the confirmation to a new beginning. What this does mean is that Juan is that much closer to a better quality of life and being given another opportunity to continue to be physically healthy!

Please keep our family in your personal prayers, on your church prayer list, and your small group prayer list because we know God is in control and in charge of this story!

Things to join us in prayer on
⚕️Juan and Teisy’s physical and mental health! For these next 27 days it will be crucial that neither one of them experience any health problems, even the slightest fever or cough could delay the surgery. They are each going through physical changes but it will also play a part on their mental health so pray that God continues to give them mental peace and strengthens their relationship.
🥼🏥 The hospital, surgeons, nurses and all members of both of their transplant teams (they each have their own designated transplant teams that consist of a nephrologist, surgeon, nurse, social worker)
👧🏻👦🏻🧒🏻 Our children ( Chris, Lexi, Yasmin, Luis, Leia, Manny, Lina) — We have tried to include our teens in the conversation about what is going on and what will happen. This journey has been overwhelming for us adults we can only pray the God conforts and gives our kids peace through everything they see and hear.
💲Provision - We have been blessed with financial support from so many and for that we can only thank God and pray that your blessings be multiplied. As one can imagine a surgery like this is a huge financial expense but we are staying focused on getting the procedure done and trusting that God will continue to provide us with what we need.

07/10/2025

Today we have a Pre-Op appointment to see if Juan is still clear for transplant and meets all the requirements needed. Please join us in prayer that the visit goes well and we get the all clear and can get a surgery date confirmed!

Thank you YKA Creations for our shirts!!

Join their page and order your shirt if you’d like to support Juan and spread Kidney Disease Awareness!

06/03/2025

Peritoneal Dialysis training today. We appreciate all the prayers and are thankful he has a great nurse walking us through this whole process.

Sharing this link for anyone who would like to gain knowledge on what PD is and how it is helping Juan while we wait for a Kidney Transplant .

https://www.freseniuskidneycare.com/treatment/home-peritoneal-dialysis

05/15/2025

We appreciate everyone who has joined this page and shared Juan’s Story!

On Thursday May 8th we had a home visit to be evaluated for Peritoneal Home Dialysis and thankfully we were approved. We were surprised to also find out that same day that his port procedure had been scheduled already.

That being said Juan has his Dialysis port surgery tomorrow Friday 5/16/25 in Tyler at the Christus Mother Francis hospital.

We will be there @7 and procedure is scheduled for 9 it should last an hour and then he will go to recovery for a little bit and then released same day. He will need to be on light duty and rest for 2 weeks during the healing process. At the 2 week point when his port site has healed then he will go in to the Dialysis center here in town for 4 days in a row to be trained on how to do the dialysis both manually and with the machine. After training if the doctor has decided he wants Juan to officially start daily dialysis he will do so at home but if the doctor feels for whatever reason Juan is still not in need of the dialysis he will just go in weekly to the center to have his port flushed and maintained in the even he would need to use it.

We will greatly appreciate the continued prayers and support during this time.

Update after the procedure will come tomorrow 😊

04/28/2025

I want to thank everyone for your thoughts and prayers, thus far. We have been blessed with lots of love and support from close and far. ☺️

Today we have a long day of appointments to get Juan set up with The Methodist Medical center in Dallas for their transplant program.

We would appreciate your prayers for a smooth day of testing and strength for Juan, he’s already anemic and they love taking his blood 🩸 😞.

Moving forward with positivity and faith, today and always.

04/19/2025

Today I want to share a few websites that all have beneficial information about Kidney Disease and may answer any questions about being a Living Donor.

https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov

https://www.kidney.org/

https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/living-donation

The OPTN is operated under contract with the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). This Web site provides data and educational information about organ donation, transplantation and the matching process.