Sunday, March 05, 2006
Saturday 3/4
When they did the ultrasound on Thursday they noticed that the artery that feeds the liver seemed narrow. The artery is open enough right now to supply the liver but it left little room for any future problems. So today Michele went down @10am for an angiogram that was supposed to take 30 - 60 minutes. They finally started about 12:15 and finished about 6:30 pm. The plan was to pump some dye into her arteries so they could map out the hepatic artery then snake a balloon in thru the artery in her groin and inflate it to stretch the artery. If that didn't work they would try to put a stent in to hold it open wider. After all was done they accomplished nothing. It seems that Michele has a rather 'unique' anatomy. The artery that feeds the liver has about 3 bends in it. The doctors were unable to get thru these bends to the narrow part of the artery. They will decide on Monday or Tuesday what the next step is. One option is to go in thru the arm and then there will be one less bend.
As far as the rejection problem they are confident that the drugs will take care of it. Her fever is gone and the kidney numbers are returning to normal. The liver numbers are still off but she just started the medication so it hasn't kicked in much yet.
She will be staying at Northwestern till at least Monday. And not to forget Sherry; she's doing good still. She stretched her workday another hour a day this week.
As far as the rejection problem they are confident that the drugs will take care of it. Her fever is gone and the kidney numbers are returning to normal. The liver numbers are still off but she just started the medication so it hasn't kicked in much yet.
She will be staying at Northwestern till at least Monday. And not to forget Sherry; she's doing good still. She stretched her workday another hour a day this week.
