so.

apparently the liver isn't just working slow, it's barely working. which you know is the point of having a new one, that it works. sigh. so today they did a biopsy on the liver, just so they could take a look at it and see if there was something they didn't see before they did the surgery, things like that. the preliminary exam of the biopsy was good, the doctors are hopeful that the liver kicks in at any moment. if it doesn't then dad will go back on a transplant list. sigh. and he'll be 'status 1' and he'll be first in line for a liver in a 3 state radius. not sure which the other 2 states are, but anyway. so then they would just do another transplant. we're really really really hoping that the liver just starts working. they were thinking that because he was soooo sick when they did the transplant that could be why it's taking so long. so, we're all just praying that it kicks in. the other bad news was that they found some germs in his blood, so they took some blood and the infectious disease guy was going to check it out. they put him on an antibiotic the doc called 'the big guns'.
his hemoglobin's (ha. i knoooow that's spelled wrong) and his blood pressure were stable, so that's good. it's just hard to think he might have to do the surgery again. and he's hooked up to a million machines and i'm just so afraid that he's not going to be ok. the doc kept saying that he was ok, but still definitely in critical condition and not out of the woods yet. the nurse said about 5 days in the intensive care unit. i slept this afternoon a bit and i'm going to try and go to work tomorrow, just to do some work and try and figure out what my plan is for the rest of the week. and to distract myself. i've had nothing but dad and him being sick and almost dying since wednesday night and it's just too much.
ok. i'm waiting for mom to call and check in and then i'm going to go home and go to bed. sigh.