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High fever

Last night, Gavin spiked another temp of 103 and this morning an even higher one, 105.2. He was started on IV antibiotics last night and his WBC has...

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Fever and high WBC

With some more medication decreases on Friday, it seemed Gavin was starting to finally feel better. Sunday he was in a great mood (mostly) but that was short...

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Irritable

This picture isn’t easy to post but it is reality. The past week being home from the hospital has been rough. Non stop fussing. All day long. This...

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It worked!!

“Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”  A little over a year ago, after our hearts were shattered to pieces by...

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roid rage

Gavin has been having another rough day. “Roid rage” is in full effect. The steroids have been making him pretty miserable and he appears to be having a...

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Numbers back up

Gavin’s labs this morning showed his liver numbers went up slightly, so his transplant doctor decided he needed more IV steroid doses to try to bring the numbers...

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Steroid started

Gavin was started on the IV steroids and Prograf last night. His labs this morning showed that his livers numbers went down again. Today, the doctors decided to...

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Biopsy Results

We waited all day and finally the liver biopsy results came back a little while ago. The biopsy showed Gavin’s liver is still in rejection, however it is...

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Biopsy

Gavin just got back to his room from his liver biopsy about an hour ago. Everything went well and they will hopefully have the results sometime later tomorrow. ...

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Elevated liver numbers

Gavin was admitted to the hospital tonight. This morning’s labs showed his liver numbers were pretty elevated. (AST 520 and ALT 280). The plan is for a liver...

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