Update: Another Hospital Admission

[Guest guest]

Thank you to all of you who responded to my posting. I really

appreciate your help. The cat scan was done on Sheldon today. The

surgeon, neurologist, gastrointestinal doctor and our primary

physician said that the organs looked good in the cat scan. The

liver shows damage. They will deal with the gall bladder later. The

game plan right now is to try to let the liver heal and to treat him

for the hepatitis. His body is totally yellow. He will remain

hospitalized and they will monitor the counts on his liver etc to see

if they go down in the next few days. More tests have been ordered.

Hepatitis A,B,C came back negative. They are doing more tests to see

if they can find the cause of the hepatities. We were told that the

hepatitis could be drug induced. He is taking so many medications

for the shy-drager syndrome. They have taken him off the vioxx,

(which was prescribed for back and neck pain.) Seems that vioxx can

cause hepatitis and they want to see if the yellowing goes down.

I really appreciate your help. Hopefully, he will be able to hold

food and regain some strength in the next few days.

Thank you and God Bless you.

Verlene Mooney