Tubes part two

Hanging with the urologist went well- though the strapping young lad made comment on my stretched out bladder walls.  Psst!

I checked in at Farr 10 at 6pm on the 18th to get a feeding tube put in me.  My body weight was down to 98 lbs at one point last two weeks ago.  Scary when you're taking a shower.  This tube will pump 2K calories into me everyday...and help me get back on track for a liver transplant.  They tell me that will happen in the morning.  Fine.  At Beth Israel, blood is taken around 5am so the Docs can assess any problems , hopefully before they begin.

  The Doctors come in the next morning , 19th and tell me that it looks like there is some bleeding in the lower intestine...due to blood not being able to properly flow through the liver there is a pressure created.  I believe it was decided that they were going to investigate with a camara and if it didn't look like a big deal then they would put in the tube after since I'd be knocked out.  I wake up and there is a tube in my nose...guess it wasn't a big deal.  They start me at 20ml an hour (I think that's the rate) of nutrint goodness.   An hour later I start getting crazy heartburn which is never a good sign.  But I'm hoping that it's just gas from force feeding.  I sit up and try to burp and puke up 3/4 cup of bloody vomit.  Wowie!  So the doctor's are thinking that bleed is more signifgent they they thought...so how to they go about about dealing with this.  Two hours go by and the think tank's wheels are spinning....and I'm getting that crazy heartburn feeling.  Widline, my PCT that day ...can't take the state of my bed and want's to clean it...change the sheets ..et cetera.   So I sit down in a chair with a basin in case this turns out to be vomit again.  Sure enough a quart of bloody vomit comes out into the basin.  It's kind of surreal sitting with a basin of blood surrounded by medical professionals.  At the same time I felt like the dog who peed on the rug.

    It's decided that I need a TIPS A.S.A.P. :
"A TIPS procedure involves creating a pathway through the liver that connects the portal vein (the vein that carries blood from the digestive organs to the liver) to a hepatic vein (one of three veins that carry blood from the liver to the heart)."

I woke up the 21st in I.C.U. recovery.  Second time I almost died in this building.