Orik Basher was addmitted to hospital with acute liver failure

[van_guy]

 van_guy wrote:
P.C. wrote:
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Sure = they are really a happy bunch - just misunderstood.









 

[exDVer]

Wow Van Guy, great pics. Where on this great big earth are you right now? And, if I'm not too nosy, what broadly speaking are you doing in such an intriguing place?

[Orik]

 just a note to let you all know, they might have a transjugular biopsy planned for me today. if they can not do this one, they might just go through with the into the liver via my side, fire the gun and long needle through the layers of flubber and pray they hit the liver and not a damned lung or other important bits.

 the transjugular biopsy is a tad risky the risk is 1 in 10,000 of death on the transjugular. not so sure on the side biopsy... but this will give them more information, we hope ( we meaning doctoros and i ) and i pray will tell them, 1. how seriously damaged my liver is and if i will need a new one any time soon... 2. if it is wilsons disease praying that this is the answer maybe the best thing to do. it can be controlled with medication and people recover pretty well. and they tend to go on and live fairly normal lives... sighs

 needless to say i am not to happy but i am not not scared silly either, just worried, a little nervous and a tad anxious... I will see u if i see u. ingat, god bless, take care. love you. and if i dont make it. i will miss you all, but im pretty good at winning the lottery... so maybe i can miss the odds on this one

 so untill tommorrow my friends. let us pray. dear God...

[Orik]

gotta go, time for my blood transfusion . prior to surgery... hugs kisses and :love  

[Gopher]

Come back soon - and relatively intact. I really do hope all goes well.  

[van_guy]

 exDVer wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]Wow Van Guy, great pics. Where on this great big earth are you right now? And, if I'm not too nosy, what broadly speaking are you doing in such an intriguing place?[/div]
I'm working in Northern Mexico near a small city of Navojoa, near the Baja Peninsula.

Broadly speaking - I am looking for gold and copper.  I'm a geologist.
 

[van_guy]

 Orik wrote:
gotta go, time for my blood transfusion . prior to surgery... hugs kisses and :love

All the best Orik.

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[exDVer]

 All good thoughts for Orik.

And thanks Van Guy. Cool!
   

[Orik]

The biopsy did not go well. i bled a fair bit afterword  and drained 2 bags of plasma. not as bad as last years i had 5 bags a of plasma back then  it might have been 10.... anyways. the biopsy went fairly bad i am sad and hurt the pain was bad i swore plentifully . they have to do another biopsy on Monday. i am out on a day pass to do laundry mail and some other odds and ends today...

i have a couple of pics but i don't realy want to post them... sighs and i sure as hell am not looking forward to another biopsy. i have a pretty high pain threshold but having a foot long needle fired in to your side hurts and then it takes a 1/2 inch of ur liver out  think of it like a pair of pliers pinching u really hard for a nano second and some one punching u just below the rib cage with a knuckle punch.  ur bruised and sore for a few days after wards... and cause the liver works badly ur clotting levels r not good so ur prone to heavy bleeding. which is very risky for guys my size... sighs...

any one want to look up wilsons disease and post me some info on it ?

 im tired and groggy and need a nap while i do my landry.  will post a couple of pics in a few min if i dont sleep to long.


 

[Orik]

 the biopsy went badly so they have to redo it on Monday. im not such a happy man now knowing i have to go through the pain of another one and the risks that come with it... [img]vny!://discoveralltheworld.com/Smileys/classic/sad.gif" alt="Sad" border="0"]

but those pics i have here u go  and info on [a href="vny!://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/wilson/"]Wilson disease 1 in 40,000 can get it not 1 in 33,000 i guess i should pay more attention.[/a]


Sorry eevery1 I had to edit and delete the blank spots after SOME changes over at photo bucket and image hosting I seem to have lost access to my images on those sites loss of my accounts passwords and other features, time for a nap

   

[van_guy]

 Orik wrote:
the biopsy went badly so they have to redo it on Monday. im not such a happy man now knowing i have to go through the pain of another one and the risks that come with it... [img style="font-style: italic;" src="vny!://discoveralltheworld.com/Smileys/classic/sad.gif" alt="Sad" border="0"]

Orik,

I hope things look up for you soon...

A couple more pics for you.  I remember you liked shots of the sky.

The first was last night from a wall mart (yikes) in Obergon (I like the name of the city - it sound like a place Gandalf would hang out - no?)

The second was today at work.  It was sunny and 42 degrees or so.

All the best,

VG





 
 

[Orik]

 Thank you every one for you well wishes good thoughts and prayers. i appreciate them immensely.

Mondays  Biopsy went well the pain is 3 times worse than it was on Friday. but the dilauded dosage has gone up, so no complaints when they give u pain killers that shoot one to the moon i guess. but when the pain killers wear off ouch!...

they discharged me earlier this afternoon and I am once more recovering at home.

now it is just a matter of waiting healing and hopping that answers will follow soon on th diagnoses on whether or not it is Wilson's disease and how far the or how much the liver is actually damaged . I do not know how long i shall have to wait for the answers or if they will even have all the answers... but i am happy to be at home now...

van guy love the pics of the sky. the second shot is brilliant it looks like the light of God is leaking out through the holes of heaven ... [a href="vny!://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs082.snc1/4559_211317140467_854865467_7158242_7117189_n.jpg" target="_blank"]vny!://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs082.snc1/4559_211317140467_854865467_7158242_7117189_n.jpg[/a]



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[exDVer]

All the best Orik, hang there in there big man!

[van_guy]

You are VERY welcome for the shots.

Get better - soon.

Sweatin' in Sonora

VG

[Orik]

[a href="vny!://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15690074" target="_blank"]vny!://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15690074[/a]
[a href="vny!://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/cirrhosis/" target="_blank"]vny!://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/cirrhosis/[/a]


thank you everyone i am holding on the best i can. but not doing very well at it. i am currently on some pain medications so that helps for the next 5 to 10 days.1-2, 2mg pills every 4 - 6 hrs as needed 1 refill if needed... at the rate i am recovering from the double biopsy, that is going well so i wont need the pain meds very long. but my liver is doing very bad, the results of my biopsy are back and its not Wilson's disease. so my spetgwpdt is stymed at to what is causing my illness.

the spetgwpdt is puzzled as to what is causing my liver to fail. i am showing extreme signs of the hepatitis ( inflammation of the liver, it is swollen approximately 2 x its normal size)  and the liver damage is very bad when compared to 7 months ago [img]vny!://discoveralltheworld.com/Smileys/classic/sad.gif" alt="Sad" border="0"] it is now showing heavy cirrhosis and end stage liver fibrosis....

. i have to see another liver spetgwpdt my spetgwpdt wants a second opinion and this guys all ready one of the damned best... things r now so bad a liver transplant is looking like my only option at survival, but the sad truth is most people die waiting for a liver. and that's all i know right now.

 i have to redo all the same tests every 2 weeks (thankfully its just the blood tests) to see if things change for the better or the worse. if they get worse, its back into hospital. sighs, i really hate the hospital, i really hate being sick and right now i am sick and tired of being sick & tired not to mention the pain . forgive me im feeling sorry for myself and am gonna go have a good scream.

 bye for now