Hi UA, Sorry for this delay in answering. Can you tell me how to find your profile so I can e-mail you? Thanks Georgia....
Hi UA, When were you diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and have you gotten help for it. How does it affect you? I believe that is the most important thing that my daughter is doing...
Hi Jerold, Believe my I understand your problem. My daughter is 30 and separated from her husband and living with me and my mom who is 92. She has bipolar II and borderline. She can be so difficult...
Hi, I am very thankful for this site because I feel that everyone of you is so insightful and your comments are so helpful and with the best intent. Her problem right now is that she thinks she has...
Thank you so much for your replies. My plan right now is she has an appointment tomorrow at 2:00 to register for outpatient treatment to start Monday. If she refuses to go at that time, then eviction...
What I found out yesterday was that she has been using methamphetamine which is a horrible, horrible thing. It makes someone like her totally crazy and unpredictable. She was supposed to go...
Hello, My name is Georgia. My daughter is 30 years old and was diagnosed bipolar II when she was 14 after the loss of her grandfather who was also a surrogate father. She got married to a man 15...
Oh, by the way, guess what the nurse brought her to drink after she woke up? BELIEVE IT OR NOT SHE BROUGHT HER A SPRITE (LOL). Fortunately, she was smart enough not to drink it. WHAT WAS SHE...
Hi, My daughter had the Nissen 360 on Wednesday and stayed overnight. She actually did better than we expected, but she is only 30 years old, so I think that helped. She is doing so much better now,...
Hi, glad that everything is well. My daughter, 30 years old, had the full 360 on Wednesday. She stayed overnight one night and went home. She had bile reflux that was miserable for her and caused so...
Hi Tony, While they say bloating will be there, I don't know how much bloating to expect, i.e. 9 months pregnant type of bloating. She already gets bloated from the gastritis and bile reflux so we...
Hi, My daughter has bile reflux also with esophagitis and erosive gastritis in the past. She is scheduled for a Nissen fundo in March but is pretty scared about it, bloating, etc. She tried carafate...
Thank you Tony. Did you have bile reflux? She also has gastritis and the Nissen will not do anything for that. Georgia....
Hi, my daughter is 30 years old and is scheduled for a Nissen 360 in March for bile reflux. She is really worried about the bloating that she was told would occur. Can anyone comment on that and how...
I just wanted to post and reassure you. I had Graves disease and have vitiligo. About 20 years ago I had a positive ANA (high) and thought I was going to get lupus also. So far, all these years...
Hi everyone. When I would see him I would look for red palms, jaundice, etc. I never did see any. I would ask my sister what the doctor said about his liver and she would say that he did not say...
Thanks Connie. I do not know what I am doing sometimes. I just could not resist giving out the information since I was led to that site by another forum. The last time I posted it was about my...
Hi Everyone. I have not been on in quite some time. I just wanted everyone to know about a site called oDesk. It is worldwide and has many jobs for workers at home. It is legitimate and I have been...
Hi everyone, I have not posted anything for quite a while. This is for those needing to work at home. I have done medical transcription at home for the past 15 years, but that work is all but gone...
David, You are so right. The doctor blew it. It was such a surprise as the doctor was also a transplant surgeon. It seems to me, though, that the rehab receiving doctor would want to know details of...
Hi David, Thanks for your reply. I think with Maria, though, they sent her there way too soon. Just two days before she went she was on a ventilator and had HE. The doctor failed to give orders to...
Hi Connie, Thank you for your very thoughtful reply. It would be very hurtful to have a daughter not care to that extent. But, what goes around comes around as they say. My daughter has a very...
Connie, She is not on any pain medications at all now except Tramadol and no prednisone either. Today, the social worker came and saw the family and after hearing the story said that they may want to...
Update on Maria, She was finally transferred back from rehab to University Hospital with an ammonia of over 90. The doctor did not order the rehab place to check ammonia levels. She was very...
Thank you Carol and Connie, No, blood vessels were not involved. The surgeon said he got it all and there has been no mention of spread elsewhere, though it did encroach the diaphragm. In fact,...
Well, Maria is going back to University Hospital tonight. At the rehab place they just are not keeping her ammonia levels down. She says she is scared. I just feel so very badly for her. Her only...
Sandia, Why didn't mike get listed for transplant? I have forgotten. Also, my dauther's mother-in-law is in rehab and is still having HE problems with, I think, three doses of lactulose. I understand...
Hi Connie, When will you get the results of your scan? Hope the results are what you hoped for. Georgia....
Hello all, Maria was transferred to a rehab facility now for physical therapy to increase her strength. I finally did see her yesterday and she looks pretty well. She is still very weak. She took her...
Also, Maybe if you put in some other numbers, for instance, for the bilirubin that are lower than yours you would be able to determine how much weight it is given in calculating the MELD. Georgia....
Hi Connie, Don't you think it must be the bilirubin. I guess it must carry a lot of weight on the score. I think I had read that a transplanted liver will be affected by the hep C faster than the...
Thanks Connie. Alyson, said that Maria asked her husband for something and she said "you ain't worth a bag of peanuts," which was so funny because she is back to herself. The doctor told Alyson that...
Hello all, I finally have something better to post. Maria is off the ventilator and drank some Lactulose on her own, didn't like it, though. She can't talk because of her throat and asked for a pad...
Connie, is your infection improving? Hope so. Georgia....
Hello all, Well, Maria has been back on the ventilator for a couple of days. Yesterday they drained a lot of fluid from her chest. She does try to fight the ventilator, so they had to restrain her...
Also, is a transplant absolutely impossible at this point? Georgia....
MamaLama, My daugher and her husband (Maria's son), her other son and his dad have been at the hospital nonstop. They have a hotel room right by the hospital. They are not a large family. Her...
Hello everyone, We are desperately looking for hope. Maria is still confused, although the nurse said her ammonia is down. She is having trouble breathing again and will be reintubated. Her kidneys...
Connie, I hope your wound gets better soon. Too much suffering on that one thing. Medical records really bug me. Doctors are careless in their dictation and many transcriptionists are careless as...
Here is the situation: The lactulose has not done anything, no BM's. But, then she has not been able to eat much. What then, can they do to get rid of the excess ammonia? I think that is the biggest...
Just got an update on Maria. Apparently, she is breathing better. But, her amonia is elevated so they gave her lactulose. Though I don't know for sure, I didn't think this was normally a problem for...
Thanks MamaLama, My daughter just called from the hospital. The doctor said all her blood work is okay. She thinks they took her off the morphine and put her on something else. When she saw her she...
Hi Connie, They have not been able to do any breathing treatments because she is so out of it and has not been fully awake. She also has never smoked. Hopefully, they can keep her off the vent. My...
Hello all, I just wanted to post an update on Maria's surgery. She is still in the ICU. Today I was told that the nurse said her oxygen level is too low and they have her on oxygen. If that doesn't...
Hi Cable Poodle, Don't forget to involve your congressman. I received two different answers from two different people at the 1-800 number and gave up and called my congressman's office. They were...
Hello all, I just wanted to post some information that may be of helping to someone needing financial assistance. If a spouse served in the military during any wartime, any if it was one day, the VA...
Connie, I don't know why I have such a hard time with the cigarettes. I wish I could quit once and for all. Georgia....
Connie, Wouldn't that be exciting. Because of the lives saved, I really don't see anything wrong with using embryonic stem cells also, especially if they were going to discard those stored at...
I just had a thought, weird I know. Since the liver is the only organ that can regenerate itself, why couldn't they put some normal liver cells in a lab and have a person's liver regenerate and...