The Gators return to play this week after two discouraging loses and Trish is back with a vengeance as well. Two of the three liver enzymes have dropped so significantly over night that they are within 30 points of NORMAL for the first time in about two months. Additionally, the billirubin has also dropped. Her skin continues to look close to normal and her eyes remain a tad yellow (they are the last to change). If you haven't checked out the counts page in a while, now would be a good time. Look for the link on the left (Other Links, The Counts).
Folks things are truly looking up for the first time in a long time. Yet we both know that we are far from out of the woods yet.
The surgeons came by this morning and removed the surgical drian and her foley catheter was removed last night. She feels pretty good getting up and going to the bathroom now.
They ran the tube feedings last night at 10cc's an hour -- don't think they chose that to commemorate the band with the same name. That rate seemed too much for Trish and made her bloated. They stopped it and just resumed it around 11am today at 5cc's an hour. So far, that is working better. She wants to eat, so the tube feeding is really to help jump start her nutrition, while she eats things like cream of rice and wheat and jello -- not a lot of nutrition there. I may stop by Pitango's later today and pick up some sorbet for her. I think it will be a long while before we try any gelato (too high fat for a gall bladder-less person).
Celebrate our good news today, be nice to your liver, eat some gelato. Say a prayer of thanks. Breath deeply and enjoy the sun, the warm or cool breeze. Hug your son, daughter, mother, father, sister, brother, husband, wife, significant other or hell, just find a willing stranger. Don't take the gifts of life or the gift of life for granted this weekend. Then, say another prayer of thanks. Amen.
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