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.
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