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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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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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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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...
Continue Reading »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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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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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...
Continue Reading »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...
Continue Reading »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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Trinity, NC
Transplant Type: Liver
Transplant Status: Transplanted
Goal: $50,000.00
Raised: $15,797 of $50,000 goal
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