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Sesilia Tatofi is continuing to improve after receiving one-third of her mother's liver in living-donor transplant surgery Aug. 9, a hospital spokeswoman reports. Sesilia’s condition
improving, benefit
concert plannedStar-Bulletin staff
The 3-year-old child is likely to leave Stanford University's Lucille Packard Children's Hospital next week, said Bettylu Smith.
Her mother, Leilani, a Polynesian dancer with Tihati Productions, left Stanford University's hospital yesterday.
Sesilia was born with biliary atresia, blocking of the ducts that carry bile from the liver into the intestine. She had a liver bypass when she was 2 months old.
The Tatofi family, including Sesilia's father, Feliuaki (Fetcho), a city bus operator, has relocated temporarily to the Palo Alto area so Sesilia can be close to the hospital during recovery.
Because of the high costs involved, a benefit concert will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Waikiki Shell.
Fetcho Tatofi's brothers, Tivaini and Timo, are members of the band Kapena. The family and a committee of bus company employees are organizing the concert with Kapena and other local bands performing.
Tickets are available through the Blaisdell Center box office (591-2211) and at the concert at the shell. Tickets are priced between $7 and $12.50. All proceeds will go to the Tatofis.
Donations also may be made to: Friends of Sesilia, 811 Middle St., Honolulu 96819.