Last night was hard for My (and all of us that have had any surgeries know how that 2nd and 3rd day hit hard, let alone a surgery...

The doctors ordered more blood pressure and pain meds. Mylins blood pressure is still low. The bottom number is still only in the mid-low 40’s. However not crazy...

As we all know healing isn’t linear. Especially this early in the game. My’s blood pressure remains really low even with medication for it and extra fluids on...

I stayed the night in the PICU with My. The nurses and doctors are so good at keeping the room quiet even though there is non stop tests...

The PICU nurse just came back to tell us My is awake. They are in some pain, but doing well. Nurses are cleaning My up, changing their gown,...

Mylin’s finishing up sometime with the anesthesia team and then will be sent over to the PICU. We just left our meeting with Dr. Nathan. He said everything...

The liver accepted the islet cells amazingly!! The pressure of the artery barely changed at all! Christie also said she is pretty sure they were able to save...

The ideal amount of islets collected is at least 5000 per kg, My had just 1300. While this doesn’t mean they won’t work out in the liver, it’s...

Our coordinator and amazing nurse, Christie was just here giving us an update. The resection of the bowels is just finishing up. The islet harvest continues on in...

3:18pm and the pancreas is officially out of there! It’ll be about another 5 hours as it’s dissected and they collect the islets in the lab. The islets...