I thought the events of the last few days would be worth and update. Tues afternoon Ann and Melissa came to my office and did an intervention. They kidnapped me at took me to the American Fork Emergency Room. I suppose the continued loss of weight and the lack of energy was their rational. The emergency room couldn’t do anything for me, which I suppose was part of the grand plan. They checked me into the hospital where I have spent the last three days taking on fluids and getting nourished through a regimented diet of high protein and carbs with high calorie counts.
While I was there, they have doctors who only work on patients that are in the hospital, I was lucky enough to get a very gifted and OCD doctor who finally took all of my tests and procedures over the last year and was able to put things together.
As is turns out, I don’t have any one thing, but several things. Which is why any one doctor just looking at one or two symptoms would not pick it up? The bottom line is my liver is going bad and needs to be replaced. I am going to plug into the transplant people next week and get the process going.
In a way it is a relief, however, another way, I am not too thrilled to be going through this again. I am told however, over the last twenty years things are a lot different, by that I mean a lot better and a lot easier on the patients. They have the medicine thing down and the recovery times are much shorter.
Assuming I can get on the list in a timely manner, I should get back to normal again a few months after the surgery. I again, thank you for all you nice thoughts and prayers on my behalf. I will keep you posted and things progress.
Mike
