Tomorrow will be the one-month anniversary of the second liver resection surgery. Although it has been a very difficult month, and we did not expect that Charlie would mark that anniversary as an inpatient at MSK, I feel like we are now in the home stretch.
The most important things are that all known cancer has been removed from his body and the liver is regenerating. The infections have been cleared up, and the excess water is coming off. His weight is about nineteen pounds lower than when he entered the hospital last Friday.
It appears that Charlie does not process the oral version of Lasix--there was virtually no progress when he was switched over from the intravenous version, and he has now been switched back. That is the main reason he is still in the hospital.
Having provided the rosy picture above, it is important for me to report also that he faces probably four months of chemotherapy in an attempt to kill lingering, undetectable cancer cells, and that will be difficult. Also, he is still not completely comfortable, and that has affected his sleep for weeks. He is very exhausted.
