The update for today is
- I do indeed have a urinary tract infection for which I am now being treated.
- Now two of my incisions are infected and draining gross fluids of which I won't go into detail.
- My MELD score (where I am on the transplant list) is now a 17. It used to be a 13, so that means I'm higher on the list now.
- My constant nose bleeds are because of my blood's inability to clot (as witnessed before with my post-surgery internal bleeding that took three hours to stop). A new liver will fix this problem.
- I'm still having a lot of pain so I'm still taking a lot of painkillers. The painkillers may actually be making my pain worse (since they slow down stuff going through the intestines) so we're going to try to wean me off of them and onto Tylenol, despite the fact the Tylenol does nothing for me. I might as well take a sugar pill. I'm not looking forward to losing my pain meds, no matter how slowly.
- My appetite is getting a little better.
I plan to get back to blogging very soon here. I've just been copying and pasting my email health updates here so that ya'll have some background of what's going on with me. Right now I'm getting some more fun stuff ready to share about my hospital time. Stay tuned!
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