Lets not rock the boat anymore!

I had a CT last night around 6pm exclusively of my liver and later that night one of my surgeons came to see me and told me heavenly news. The CT looked better than anyone thought it would and everyone was surprised at their meeting.

The clot in my "main portal vein" is almost completely gone thanks to my radiologist that cleaned it out last week, the flow is all open in there. Hopefully after time my spleen will start decreasing in size now that the flow is all open and they don't want to do anything at this time to my splenic veinous system. Like he said "we don't want to rock the boat anymore!". They could keep having a hay-day with me and keep doing more and more procedures to keep fixing me, but for the time, I am doing great, my labs and liver functioning is going back in the right direction, and we need to give my body time to heal and see what happens before we decide to ever do anything else. Maybe nothing will ever have to be done again, if my spleen goes down!

They believe I became jaundice from the procedure done last week, the CT shows my liver bruised, slightly bleeding, and swollen where they entered that portal vein. Also, the collaterals/"new veins" that did create in there compressed my common bile ducts restricting the flow to my Gallbladder but they think that over time this will also heal. Some of the Doctors want to do an ERCP on me now, but my surgeons think we need to wait. I agree.

Why did this happen? I now have a whole team of hematologists working on my case. I have fired my hematologist at home, fired everyone at home, and I am sticking with everyone at U of M! They are running tons of blood work, looking for anything that could have caused this all. We may never know. Some think Lukester, some think my colon surgery 8+ years ago, we don't know. Thats what makes it so hard for everyone to understand and that much harder to fix the problems. Is it going to come back? I will stay on Blood thinners for minimum 6 months and then we will consider going off them if all blood work looks good. Scary b/c we don't know if that will open the gates for it to come back....

I am staying for another 24 hours, one more night and hopefully I can come home!!!! I was so happy last night I cried! I just held my blankie from my kids and cried tears of joy. Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, His love endures forever! I praise the Lord for all He has done, for bringing me here to U of M, for all of my Doctors here: Woodside (floor Doctor who is here everyday for a month! Sonnenday, Engelsbee, (liver surgeons)
York and Lewis (liver Specialist), Dasika (the interventional radiologist), Lisa Glass (Hematologist).
I thank the Lord for my parents, Steves parents for taking awesome care of my children while I have been gone, my sisters for being with me, my wonderful husband for holding my hand throughout this entire journey (he has been awesome and knows so much about me and the medical field now! hopefully this is it he says! :) Thank you friends and family for your thoughts and prayers, I love you all!

I can't wait to come home!!!!!!