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Post-Op Update

Last night was a little rough in terms of pain control. Originally, Lincoln was going to get an epidural since this was such a big surgery, but his...

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Another Surgery…

It’s been almost a month since Lincoln got his biliary drain removed. Labs were so-so in the beginning as we were fighting rejection, but then started to look...

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Biliary Drain Update

It’s been about a month since Lincoln got his biliary drain placed. He was doing really well with it and adapting to life with the drain was honestly...

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Bile Drainage

Lincoln was scheduled to get a percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram (PTC) yesterday to determine if his bile ducts were blocked. This would explain why Lincoln’s liver numbers have remained...

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Liver Biopsy

Lincoln’s labs started looking a little wonky last week, so some medication changes were made and labs were redone this past Wednesday. These results showed little improvement, so...

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Birthday at the Hospital

Well, Lincoln’s in the hospital again. 2/9 at 4am, Lincoln started fussing and we noticed he was warm. His temperature was 101.9, so we gave some Tylenol and...

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Infection Update

We are going home! Lincoln’s blood cultures have remained negative and based on his chest x-ray, he was diagnosed with pneumonia. It was weird to get this diagnosis...

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Infection

Yesterday afternoon, Lincoln started being extremely fussy and grunting as he was trying to sleep. At first, we thought maybe he was trying to poop, but it kept...

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Outpatient IVIG

Today Lincoln is spending a few hours in the hospital getting an IVIG infusion. He’s been low in IgG before, but that was related to his chylous leak...

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3 Months Post Transplant!!

Lincoln is finally 3 months out from his transplant. What does this mean? We dropped a few medications from our regimen, we visit the doctor less, and we...

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Lincoln Hughes

Trinity, NC

Transplant Type: Liver

Transplant Status: Transplanted

Goal: $50,000.00

Raised: $15,797 of $50,000 goal

Raised by 30 contributors