Sunday, September 9, 2012

Doing Fine In Durham -- THANKS FOR THE CONTINUED LOVE, SUPPORT & PRAYERS!

Chip has been going back for blood tests about every day.  After our scare from last weekend they want to be really sure.  Turns out that they were maybe being a little 'too cautious' with our call to "GET TO THE HOSPITAL NOW" but we are fine with that.  Always better to be extra safe than not  -- especially when it is pertaining to a liver.

He went on Friday to give blood again and was greeted by his surgeons and many of the associates he had been dealing with the past number of months.  I wish I had been there to see it.  What a KODAK moment it was.  He found out that once you are placed on the list that you are number 1 on the list for 30 days.  I am not sure if it works like this for all hospitals that do transplants but this is what we were told for Duke.  His 30 days were close to expiring when our "LARGE" liver showed up.  His coordinator told him that she was getting ready to have to to tell him that she didn't know when he would get a liver and that it could be as long as a year for him to wait.  YET ANOTHER MIRACLE.  The day before we got the call about the liver Chip was talking to our cousin and Tim said to him "You may just get a liver in the next 24 hours.  They have done over 40 transplants this year and they do about 80 a year so you never know".  Uncanny just 16 hours later he got the call. 

So.... here we are day 17 after surgery and we are doing as good as can be expected.  Doctors are still tweaking the prograf (Anti-rejection medicine) and the Prednisone (Steroid) medicine.  This steroid is not the typical steroid that we think of as the illegal substance that body builders may use it is the one that controls some inflammation and works in conjunction with the other meds.  It makes him very emotional and tearful.  This drives him crazy.  He is laughing one minute and extremely emotional the next.  Who wouldn't be?  Who wouldn't be even without the drug and having just gone through a liver transplant?  We take each day as it comes and we take the tears and the good news gladly.  We are even getting used to the the insulin shots.  So if insulin is a part of our every day life from here on out... so be it.  We will do what we need to in order to keep "STEWIE" happy.
 
Thanking you for your continued prayers and thoughts!
 

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