To the most amazing dad I could ask for, my hero, my mentor, my advisor, my biggest cheerleader, who supported me in everything in life, thank you for being the outstanding person that you were, for loving your family and friends unconditionally, for being a positive influence and role model to everyone around you, for being [...]
Last update: 12/17/16 (scroll down) Our nail biting roller coaster continues; the morning of 12/9/10 seemed to look good, blood pressure meds dropped, some activity in the right eye, less fluid in the lungs; though things took a turn with internal gastric bleeding, profuse amounts of blood coming from dad's gastronomy (gi) tube, a tube inserted through the [...]
First off would like to thank each and everyone of our family and friends for coming through for us, through hospital visits, prayers, thoughts, positive energy, even if simply just following along on our blog or facebook. The love and support keeps carrying us through. Dad is in serious/critical condition at the moment, pupils not dilating [...]
After what seemed like a lot of progression and coming close to the (almost) liver transplant we had been hoping for, we took a step back today to realize my dad is not as stable as we thought he was. And what had asphyxiated my dad (caused oxygen levels to drop) during intubation was said to [...]
As many in our facebook group know, there had been a liver that became available for my dad, was harvested at about 7-9pm in Orange County and liver transplant was a go. I got a message confirming the transplant from my mom at about 12:30am and drove from an hour away to be with her. [...]
We're now waiting for a liver; dad is awake (unlike in 2008 when dad was in coma) but not his usual self; he's in hepatic encephalopathy, constantly disoriented and hallucinating. He's also weak and barely able to move, neurologically affected by his failing transplanted liver and perhaps partially caused also by muscle atrophy. His darker color, yellow tinged [...]
