OK, one more update!
Just confirmed that the UAB Liver Center (finally) has all of the blood test results they need (Praise the Lord) and Tom's MELD score has dropped to 13. While this is a great thing it just means we have a long wait if he is going to get a liver. Who knows, maybe he'll continue to get better and won't need one after all !?!?!?
The biggest change was in the blood clotting factors which the liver makes and his must be doing a good job because the results are a full point lower than they were a month ago - which is great. The docs are a bit concerned about his anemia so he's going to start taking folic acid today and may need a blood transfusion in the next week or so - hopefully not this week but if it's necessary, that's what we'll do. It would just require Tom to go to the hospital for a couple of hours. Tom's kidney doctor made the transfusion recommendation, his gastroenterologist is being informed and the coordinator at the UAB Liver Center is also going to ask the transplant doctors what they think.
Tom will not need to have the next blood results reported for the wait list until February 23!
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