Today has been a busy day...but a good day!

Well this has been a busy day, AM so far.

Capped the bile bag so it is draining inside now as it "should" be...tonight's labs and tomorrow AM will be the tell tale sign of what is happening with the "repair".

Sodium bicarb is much better than what it was over a week ago

Liver numbers continue to come down

Kidney function is continuing to come down, it was 2.4 today....was 2.9 on Saturday so its slowly coming down- improvements are improvements. Rays poor kidneys just take a beating during surgeries.

The liver team came by and was very pleased with everything so far. Surgical team didn't come by today they were in a surgery.

Feel recovery will be a minimum of 6 weeks with the big incision they had to make or "remake!" Hospital stay till about Wednesday/Thursday.

They did take the catheter out and the epidural is turned off. Epidural not pulled out yet- his platelets were low yesterday/this AM so they want to wait until they go up so there isn't a bleed.
They had been giving him heparin shots to prevent blood clots after surgery but since he is moving around those have stopped today. So hopefully in the next day or two platelets will come up and then they can pull the epidural.

Was able to eat solid food today- graduated from jello/liquids....to scrambled eggs/bagel!

Slowly but surely things are getting better and better.

I would say overall doctors were pleased today and I see a big improvement in him today.

I am staying until this afternoon and then heading back to Greenville for a few days. A certain 8 year old is REALLY missing her mommy!

Continue to pray for healing of this duct, that liver function/numbers go down, that kidneys continue to bounce back from surgery and kidney function goes down. NO fevers today either so continue to pray against those.

Thanks everyone as always. Ray will be by himself for the next few days- now that he is feeling a little stronger he will appreciate text or emails I am sure to help pass the time!
252-347-1449

Ray and Janet