Trish
Hello my name is Tessy and I ran across this blog while looking at stuff about liver donors. I just wanted to tell Trish that my thoughts and prayers are with her and her family. I have been taking care of my 55 yr old father for 6 years and on July 23, 2010 the lord blessed him with a liver transplant. He was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and hepatocellular carcinoma also a primary liver cancer. It has been the most amazing blessing I have ever received. For the first 5 years we were seeing a Dr. that told us he could not be listed for a transplant because of his condition, and then August 11, 2009 my father was medi-flighted to a hospital in the city due to internal bleeding. While we were there a team of liver Drs came to see him and wanted to know why he was not on the list, needless to say I jumped on the phone and called a transplant center in Dallas, TX who immediately scheduled an appointment to start the pre-transplant evaluation. The next couple months were so rocky; he had such sever problems with Hepatic encephalopathy (if you do not know much about this please educate yourself and your family it happens as you get sicker), at one point he went into a coma, also the fluid retention, and so on. Anyways on March 23rd 2010 he was listed with a MELD of 19 but upgraded to a 22 for the HCC, and then exactly 4 months to the day of enlistment we received that life altering call. The surgery went amazing, they said he would be on the ventilator for 24 hours and within 4 he was out breathing the machine so they took him off, then they said it would be a week before he would be walking and he started walking to the bathroom the very next day!!!!!! His mentality came back with in a week and I have a father again and its only been 2 and half months!!!!!!!!! It has been the most amazing journey ever and if you would ever like to talk please don’t hesitate to contact me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tessy Copeland
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