Re: Anybody had this procedure done?

[Guest guest]

Honestly I don't know what the procedure is that they are proposing. I haven't

been there

when the drs have been in and god love my dh, he's not so good with the details.

LOL What

he told me is that they would have to go into his liver and dig the stones out.

Sounds painful!

And it is NOT an ERCP. The ERCP team refused to do one on him because he is so

full of

stones.

I don't know what his current MELD score is. When he was in the hospital 2 weeks

ago for the

bile duct infection, it ranged between 18-23. His bilirubin the day he was

admitted was 14.

He was the color of a Simpson (as in Bart, Homer LOL). As of yesterday his

bilirubin was only

5.3 which is the lowest it's been in a while.

They've had him on IV Vancoyacin before they knew about the cdiff. They just

started him on

Flagyl a couple days ago. The last culture he had done was clear.

We are both SO ready for him to be listed. He's on stand by list for another

pericentesis but

with all the snow we've gotten, they're short staffed so they weren't sure if

they'd get to him

or not. As much as he hates having it done, he'd feel so much better if they did

it. They had

given him Oxycodone yesterday because his side is hurting so bad with all of the

swelling

and fluid retention. I know if he asks for pain meds, he must be hurting because

he NEVER

asks for pain meds.