STILL NOT RECOVERING WELL

This is Dean blogging.  Sorry I have not kept up the blog.  Not enough time in the day and I'm choosing sleep over blogging.  Last blog was on Jan 28 and Ginny's health has not improved much.  She is still very weak, not able to eat nor hydrate well, having pain in upper abdomen, very bloated abdomen.  Last week was very stressful - got her labs on Jan 24 and her liver enzyme numbers went up with her bilirubin the highest ever - she was severely jaundiced.  I got her appt with gastroenterologist on Jan 26 who said that she was not going into liver failure (big relief) but he couldn't do much for her.  Brought her back to the liver embolization doc's office that afternoon and a new doc decided to ultrasound her abdomen which showed a lot of fluid accumulation.  This doc drained 1750ml (almost 2 liters) of fluid from her abdomen which gave her a lot of relief from the bloating feeling.  She felt and did better over the weekend.  On Sunday, she ate a big meal of Chinese roast duck, roast pork and chicken feet and said it was the best meal she's had in a while.  Unfortunately, all this greasy Chinese food was not good for her (too much for her liver to handle) and her abdomen was very bloated again on Monday morning.  This Monday, the oncology nurse called to tell me that her liver numbers had gone down a little which is good.  I've been doing lymphatic drainage on her which has helped the bloating effects so she can eat some and get some relief from the fluid pressure pain.  Her abdomen will be drained again tomorrow, Thur.  We need to get her liver healing faster so she can go back to systemic chemotherapy because there is concern (from the oncologist) that her blood tumor marker number is going up which means there's cancer growing somewhere.  She did manage to go to dinner with us Wed night - first time in a couple of months.  That's the latest.  We're taking one day at a time and every morning we are thankful that Ginny is still here.  Thank those of you who have helped us recently.  We appreciate everyone's prayers and positive thoughts.