Dylan Moore family looking for rainbows

FAIRVIEW, MINN. — Just when many people were breathing a sigh of relief and hoping young Dylan Moore was on the road to recovery following a bone marrow transplant, complications rose.

The 8-year-old has seen more than his share of sickness and pain, but he keeps fighting strong, his family reports.

Moore’s mother, Besty writes in her journal that whenever she feels hopeless, she looks for rainbows. Yesterday  she once again found herself looking.

The child was born with Fanconi Anemia. He required a bone marrow transplant in October, and was expected to stay in the University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital at Fairview for 100 days but numerous complications coupled with the standard problems associated with recovery have kept him there. Moore was allowed out of the hospital around day 122 moving to a nearby recovery home. Then he developed liver complications and a fever that required his return to the hospital

Now, Moore has developed further complications, suffering sever stomach pains and vomiting blood, making doctors suspect he was rejecting his transplant. He was taken to surgery to investigate the bleeding, where they found severe irritation in the stomach, but they cannot explain the bleeding in the colon. Doctors have not the possibility of transplant rejection, but hope that it was due to complications with his feeding tube.

“After a very tense and frustrating morning, I accompanied Dylan to the operating room against the doctor’s wishes. He was very nervous, so I stayed beside him until he was asleep. We were concerned that he was being intubated during the surgery. We were also concerned that his risk of bleeding was high. I was looking out the window for a rainbow and Peanut (a family member) was thumbing through a magazine. Guess what he found. You got it. A rainbow!”