The Sielicki Family Stands Behind The Murnaghan Family

In case you haven't seen the coverage in the news: Sarah Murnaghan is a 10-year-old little girl with end stage cystic fibrosis.  At this point, she has weeks to live if she does not recieve a lung transplant.  Sarah has been on the children's transplant list for 18 months.  She's also been in the hospital for 3 months now.  Because Sarah is only 10, she's not been considered for an adult lung. Child donors are rare. Sarah's parents have reached out to the news, their representatives, and the Katherine Sebelius, the Health and Human Services Secretary to change this policy to make it fair for children to also receive adult lungs.  Under the current policy, any child under the age of 12 who is on a transplant list is only offered lungs from a child donor that is similar in size.  Children who are waiting for a lung transplant die at 3 times the rate of adults on the transplant list because child donors are so rare. 
With the technology today, adult lungs can be "trimmed" to fit a child, and that transplant can be even more successful than an adult transplant.  However, the policy has not been changed to reflect this. Changing the policy to allow adult lungs be available to children IS NOT taking life from someone else like Katherine Sebelius said, it's making it fair, regardless of age, where the sickest person gets the transplant first.  Yes, changing this policy does put Sarah in the front of the line for a transplant because she's the sickest in need, NOT because she's getting preferential treatment.
I'm so thankful Sarah's family did not give up.  I'm also thankful for the federal judge who has stepped in and has changed the policy for Sarah for at least 10 days.  Hopefully, this will lead to a permanant policy change.  Our family is behind this policy change!
Our family is praying for a miracle for Sarah.  Even though she's now on the adult transplant list for the next 10 days, so many other things have to fall in place. We believe in miracles!