4:19pm
We’re not out of the woods yet but we’ve made progress. Nat’s liver was filled with “stones, sludge, and pus” all of which they sucked out with a big tube. He’s currently jaundiced, on pain meds and antibiotics, and when I arrived he was still hallucinating. On the other hand he was also hungry for the first time in close to a week, and he’s FINALLY asleep right now. I think we’ve turned a corner and are no longer facing disaster — but time will tell. If the antibiotics clear the infection, his liver numbers come down, and he stops hallucinating, he will probably be out in 3-4 days.
I need to stop reading the lab values as emoji. Value <3 doens’t mean they loved the value.
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6:35pm
Oh my god he’s finally talking like a normal person