Day 21

Tuesday March 31, 2009

Today was another day. Jake is still trying to get some sleep. His steroids are being tapered off, and because so his white cell, and red blood cells are dropping. This was to be expected, but it is not to be worried about it because this is alright. They are still showing concern towards his liver. You only need 30% of your liver to live, but his doctor does not want to have to go the route of surgery by removing his liver because of the possible infection in other organs, or throughout the body. Tomorrow we will be having an ultrasound done on his liver to see if it shows any signs of an infection. If the ultrasound does not work then they will go to a cat-skan. Yet, if the cat-skan doesn't show anything either, then we will have to have a liver biopsy. They do not want to do the biopsy, but if it comes down to it then they will proceed. We hope for the best, and find what we are looking for soon.