Interesting Info

When we went to clinic today,he was doing well again!He is still having some issues with his kidneys, so they lowered his rejection meds since that is what is causing the kidney damage. Now we just wait to make sure he doesn't try to reject with the medication lowered. This is what they are planning on doing over a period of time any way, the goal is to get the meds down as low as possible and still protect the liver. So they didn't remove anything this time but did lower the dosage. But the interesting thing we learned was when they did the pathology on Mike's liver after the transplant they found that one of the tumors was in fact 5cm. not the 3.5 we had thought it was and if they had known it was this large he would not have gotten the transplant... he said the MRI gave a false reading on the size and sometimes that happens. So the bottom line is there was a mistake made and it was ALL to our benefit because otherwise he would have just had to get treatment and wait and see if the cancer spread to the rest of his body or not. So we can thank God for one more thing now. He will start his 20 week round of chemo next Tuesday but they still say it is a very small dose and shouldn't make him sick. All in all he is doing real good. Jen, Tyson, Shawn, Kailynn, Logan, Staci, Bobby and their girls have been here for a few days and we all went to the zoo on Monday, he made it just fine.He has been tired today but is still doing as well or better than most of the people we are going to clinic with that have also had transplants.He isn't driving yet and not real sure when that will come about. He gets his staples out on Friday and I know that will make him feel better. I will let every one know how he does after the first chemo.