And we're back at the hospital again.....

Jared went back to work today after having the TIPS fixed last Friday. Well I got a call from him at about 1:30 this afternoon saying he was headed to the ER. Good grief, they should just put us up in a hotel next door. Jared got really sick at work. He was really pale, had a high fever and severe abdominal pain and vomiting and shivering like crazy. His boss drove him to the ER. I waited for Sydney to get home from school and then I headed out there. They had given him some morphine for the pain and covered him up in warm blankets. They drew blood and got some fluid from his abdomen to check for infection. Because of the high fever they admitted him. No test results came back tonight so we will have to wait until tomorrow to see what's going on. I left him in the good hands on the 8th floor.....wait that's not right...what happened to us getting to stay on the 10th floor?? I liked it up there :( "sigh" Anyway, I came home to be with the kids and to get them off to school in the morning. I'll be headed back up tomorrow to spend the day with him.

Just kidding....

Coincidence?? So right after Jared cut back on his lasics he quickly began to fill back up with ascities again. At his last appointment the doctor said if the TIPS is working then he wouldn't need them anymore. "sigh"  So I called his coordinator and told her what happened.They sent him for an ultrasound where they found that the blood flow through the shunt was really slow, so last week Jared had to go back to Dr. Blatter at the heart lung center for what they called a TIPS revision. He was filling up with ascities again rather quickly.  They needed to go in to see what the problem was. They went in the same way as they did the first time and they found that the shunt had a kink in it, so they put another shunt inside the one that was already there to stabilize it. Besides waiting for hours past his scheduled time, the revision went pretty quick. It probably took just over an hour and they didn't have to put him under anesthesia to do it.  We sat in the recovery room for about 45 minutes and then they let him go home. He is tired and a little sore still but so far everything is going ok with it.
Wondering if he really will get to go off his lasics and if it was just a freak coincidence that it happened at the same time he cut back. :) Time will tell I guess.

No more lasics?

Jared had his routine appointment at the transplant center yesterday. His MELD dropped a little, down to 18 :( oh well, it's going to happen. The doctor said he could cut back on his lasics since the TIPS is working, and he also said he can quit taking the antibiotics he has been taking since last October when there was a complication after a paracentesis. Yea, he hates having to take so many medications. It will be awesome to scale it back.