JoAnn Thanks for the reply. It was very insightful. When I say they handle nutrition, I mean that they stay away from a lot of proteins to avoid the urea build up and of course the sodium. But, they...
Butterflythree, My dad did get encephalopathic states now and then. We just had to watch him for signs of encephalopathy before it got bad enough and give him the lactulose which seemed to work well....
Butterflythree Thanks for the reply. This disease manifests so different in different individuals. My father has been dealing with this for 10 years and just now when his score is in the low 20s he...
Yeah, he got his steak. :smile: Yes my question was regarding the length of time some have to wait. He is in the St. Louis university system for the transplant. Thanks, Seth...
Actually my father had been at the top of the list on 3 separate occasions. The bleed...well they scoped the colon and stomach and found only some enlarged tortuous blood vessels in the stomach. They...
If so many people feel that the MELD score only represents a small number of people that progress in the disease state as expected, then why don't they change it? I imagine they have thought of many...
My father has had the fluid drawn off almost weekly now for 6 months. However his breathing problems did not start until later on relative to to the whole 10 years he has been dealing with this. It...
Thank yo so much for this information. I will check back later....
I am looking for some help. My father has Hepatitis C and has been waiting for a liver for a while (years). His MELD score has been up and down, with a high of 27 at one point. In the past 6 months...