It's amazing what can you can learn when you become a squeaky wheel. I just felt we had been through enough! I sat down and wrote to our coordinator and explained our frustration at the MELD score...
1 1/2 years ago, I had a physical exam and found that my total cholesterol was 234. My doctor put me on a generic statin, pravastatin. I was on the beginning level low dose. Six weeks ago, I had...
Thanks for writing, windhover. Your words launched quite a flurry of activity for us. My husband fell while I was helping him walk to the bathroom, cracking two ribs. He was hospitalized for one week...
Hep93 - good point. I can't be certain who knows what in this process. We live 230 miles from SLU (transplant location). Our local doctor orders the weekly procedures, and so far he has been very...
Thank you for your responses. It helps to know others understand what I'm feeling. Today, he had 1.5 liters removed from pleural and 4.5 liters from the abdomen. I wonder if this means regular...
I'm sitting here waiting for another paracentesis and maybe another thoracentesis as well. I've waiting in this same place about 50 times or more over the past few years. My husband has been on the...