WOW thats great news, I can't wait until I catch up with Mike....
Hi everybody, Its been a while since I last updated everyone. I had my 3rd annual post transplant check up. All is going prefect, I'm down to taking only 1mg of prograf twice a day. I started off...
Hi MamLama and everyone, I'm almost 2 years out, working 2 jobs, feeling great. Every now and then I get some bad pain in my stomach but it just last a short time. I'm taking 250 mg of cellcept twice...
Hi everybody, Well it's been a long road, but I finally reached the 1year Mark.I had my check-up on the 21st of May. I am clear of hepatitis C. My liver is doing fine. I'm back to work again. I feel...
Buddy, I know what you mean about VA. I gave up on them after 5 months of them dragging their feet. All they wanted to do was draw blood and give me another appointment. No treatment, no medicines,...
Themiz, I'm sorry to hear that you have had 4 false calls. I am praying that you get the real call soon. I kind of feel guilty that I had an so-called easy road with hep-c and my transplant, compare...
Hi Everyone, Well Saturday will be 41 weeks since my transplant. We are going to celebrate by going on a cruise. I'm almost 100 percent again. Still a little tender around the scare area. I only...
Not dust on the liver, but a small syst on the liver....
Hi everybody, well tomorrow will be 6 months post transplant. I have been cleared to work, with minor limitations. I have been undetected for hep c since May 19th, I will complete my hep c treatment...
Hi Lostson, Congratulations on your dad's transplant. I happy to heart tat he is doing great. I remember 5 months ago, after my transplant, all I wanted was a steak. But everything I ate tasted like...
by the way my surgeon explained to me, it was a 6" stench that is place where my bile connects to my new liver. It is supposed to pass through me before 3 months post transplant. I was supposed to...
Hi everyone, Sorry I haven't posted for a while. But here is an update. Last week we went to Pine mountain, hiking the trails. I got 5 miles in, we planned on only 4 miles, but my son's dog (Jack)...
Hi everyone, I pass another milestone today. This morning I had my weekly clinic check up. My doctors said I don't need to check my blood sugar level anymore, they stopped 1of my medicines. All...
Zoarie, I had hcc before my tp, I had a TACE procedure done on April 20th 2014, the results was the tumor was killed. This TACE is chemo injected in the tumor and the blood vessels feeding the tumor...
Hi everyone, Being home is great. I'm going for walks around the neighborhood. Maggie is constantly on my case, because I would sit still. But it been years since I had this much energy. Just a small...
Hi everybody, post transplant day 14, I'm finally but in our home now. I don't need to go back to the clinic until Wednesday the 28th. I feel free now with the few restrictions. No driving for 4...
Mama, I had the HE confusing thing a couple of times, I didn't like the stories my granddaughters would tell me, so after talking with my PCP, and understanding what caused HE on me, I went out of my...
Splashdance, I had decomposated cirrhosis of the liver. HCV from type 3b. Liver cancer tumor. Just finished my first labs, 8 tubes of blood, thank god they used a butterfly to draw the blood. Needle...
Themiz, lets see if I can answer all your questions. First my geno type is or was 3b. The time for treatment is unknown to me , but I believe it's until it gone. I hope... My first labs are tomorrow...
Hi everybody, sorry for not posting yesterday. I was overwhelmed with making sure I followed all my instructions from the hospital after being released Friday. But I needed to get back to...
Themiz, yes the wheezing is the blood clot in my left lung. I take 2 shots DAILY of lovenox. 8mg each time under the fat line on my stomach, to thin my blood. Around 10 and 12 hours later. The pain...
Hi everybody, I'm out of the hospital, in a suite near the hospital. WOW all the information and all medicines. Programf. 3 at 10am, and 3 at 10pm. Cellcept. 2 am 2 pm. Prednisone. Changes DAILY....
Well hi everyone,, it's slow and fast pace here. It Thursday afternoon and I'm still here in the hospital,I got this wessing noise in my chest. Had an chest x-Ray, then a nuclear scan, and CT scan...
Well since I needed 8 hours prior to transplant, I didn't get the trail ,that I had expected. But I hope someone gets it. My hospital has only 4 slots for this program. My meds seem to be changing...
Hi everyone. My surgeon was talking about sending me home on Wednesday, but I think that's to soon. I don't want to get home and have to come right back, for something a an extra days or two would...
WE2, It was removed yesterday around 11 or 12 in the morning. I was glad to yet rid of it cause I thristy for water. Thanks you for asking. Ron...
My family and I thank you all for the great information and support that we have received for the past years from all of YOU. I really miss Connie and wish she could be here with us now, but I know...
Hi everyone I wish all you wonderfullymothes a Happy Mother's day. I Will treasure this new gift that I was lucky to receive, I have been praying for the Donors Family since I have received the call....
My wife in picking up my brother, his wife and my sister from Atlanta airport, they should be here in 10 minutes. Thanks again for all the prays. Less than 24 hours from the call. And am completely...
Thanks for all the prays. I can't believe that it's done. They put me under at 6:30pm and was finish at 10pm. I was awake at 1am, sitting in my chain at 6: 30am., now I'm updated all my friends here...
Thanks. I'm sitting in my room. The nurse called and told my they had the operating room set for 6pm, and they would come and get me at 5pm. Thanks again Ron...
This is going to fast, except getting my wife here. Well it's only a hour and a half from the hospital....
I had two nurses call me yesterday, they needed to do blood tests, for hepatitis c, and then complete blood work. Today I spent 4 hours giving all the blood, and saw my doctor. She told me that I was...
Hi everybody, here is my update following the TACE procedure. I had an MRI on the second of May. My doctor called me Monday (yesterday). The tumor is completely gone, he wants to repeat the MRI in...
Hi everyone, today was a long day. 5am we, got up showed and left at 6:15 for 6:45 check in at the hospital to start a day, that I thought would be done by noon the latest. Well after signing a bunch...
I have a high AFP 367 on Jan 2 2014. My AFP started at 79 two years ago. My doctor had an CT done in November 2013 and an MRI in December 2013. It turn out to be a tumor that is getting bigger. At...
Splashdancer, you and Robert are in our prays. Keep talking to him and let him know we're all here praying for a speedy recovery. Ron...
Listen to your DR. And push the operation back a few weeks....
Hi everybody, first I'm SORRY to hear about Connie, she was such an inspiration to me. I had a CT scan and blood work on the 18th of October. The tumor was 1.5 cm and AFP 218. On the 2nd of January...
Hi hiker, don't feel alone in Ga. I'm from west ga, near Al and Ga line....
WOW, I first noticed this smell yesterday when my granddaughter told me that I smelled bad. Now all night I have had this smell coming from my breath, my pores. I have brushed and used mouth wash....
Susie, & Mama, Thanks. I stopped drinking 1yr 10my ago. That seemed to be easy after 35 years of drinking everything. But that SMOKING was hard. Now I'm still taking chantix but my dr told me it was...
Hi everybody, Its been a long road (1yr 10 months) But I finaly got on the list. They put me on the list on the 21st of Oct, but I recieved the letter in the mail today. My Meld is 13 now, but in Dec...
Hep93 At the beginning I had no knowledge about any of this stuff. In November 2011 My wife and her sister wanted me to go to the Ft Benning hospital to have my VA disability increased. But when I...
Thanks everybody, for the great advice about quitting ssmoking, all I need to do is keep reading all your postings. Now to answer all your questions at 2:30am because it's one of those nights that I...
I haven't hide the hcv or cirrhosis of the liver from.my sis. I just haven't told her about the cancer tumor that showed up in the CT scan. I got my wife and my sis as support for the transplant when...
Yesterday was not a good day for me. I had a CT scan 14th of June, and through if I had no news from the doctor, that was good news. So I never called him to find out the results of my CT scan. Well...
I'm back, now my blood test are back in Jan 2012. My MELD Score was 11, I had Alcoholic Hepatitis C, Chronic Hepatitis C virus, Decompensaded Cirrhosis of the liver, Ascites, Coagulation defects,...
Because I get tried easy this will take a few day to post. Please bear with me. thanks Well in Dec 2011 my sister-in-law and wife convinced me to go see the doctor and file a VA claim for all my...