After long consultations with many, many doctors we have agreed that it is very unlikely that Lucas's liver will ever recover, so we, as a family, have decided to do everything we can to make him comfortable and enjoy however much time we have left together. We are hoping to safely extubate in the next couple of days and then have a strict DNR order and manage any pain with the help of a team of doctors and nurses that specialize in palliative care. It is so very hard to say goodbye to our son but I cannot stand to put him through anymore if the odds of him living a good life are so, so low.

This community has already been so caring and giving, so maybe I'm out of place asking, but I have one request if anyone would like to help us. We never got family pictures taken, I thought I had so much time to do all that stuff. If anyone would have a spare moment to find a photographer that would be able to come to UCLA hospital to do family pictures I would be so grateful.