This is not a good road to travel.

May 20, 2012

Hi all

I have not posted for sometime now but always check in to read the posts. I am

sad to say my Son is sicker now than he was last year. Then they said he had

alcoholic hepatitis, was very jaundiced etc after spending a couple of months in

hospital he came out but never lost the jaundice...he started to drink

again..this resulted in him having a variceal bleed...they have treated it by a

Variceal band ligation....he was due to have a biopsy but discharged himself

from hospital. He is now at home, quite poorly, I am going in to care for him a

couple of times a day. The Dr said he has got cirrhosis they just need to see

how bad it is. He had nose bleeds yesterday and I feel scared as he had those

before his last bleed. He is very thin and sleeping quite a lot...his bilirubin

levels are 100 which is good for him as when he went into hosp last year they

reached 480. He is eating fairly well. He is definitely not drinking now. His

blood is not able to clot very well and when they do the biopsy it will be by

the Transjugular liver biopsy method. What do you all think? can he recover? he

has mental health issues which make him anxious and he cannot handle being with

other people which is what led to him discharging himself. He says he wants to

die at home...he does not want to go into hospital as a patient anymore although

he will go for his biopsy as a day patient. He says life has nothing for him. He

has to have all his teeth removed soon as they are crumbling due to hosp meds

last year..is this common??

I feel at a loss, can he get better, might he die soon? Sorry I know I have

rambled and everything is disjointed but thank you for reading this and any

thoughts will be appreciated..Kind regards to you all,

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