dear friends.
on Jan 1 I started triple drug therapy for hepC-- latest antiviral (telaprevir), ribavirin and and interferon. They had treated
some 50 liver transplant patients this way at Mayo. Interferon and hep C both interact in complicated ways with the immune system.
On around the evening of Jan 25 I developed a shaking chill fever. Meg called an ambulance and toke me to UNM hospital where I was put in
the medical ICU. Some three days later, Meg was unhappy with my care at UNM. Just as I was slipping into a coma, she got me
on a med-vac flight to Jacksonville, at the last possible moment that I could still be transported.
At Mayo, Jacksonville a team of some 6 doctors and nurses worked on me for 3 hours to stabilize me and then struggled to keep
my blood pressure up over the next 2 weeks.
I hallucinated throughout this period, and for at least a week on and off after I came out of the coma.
I awoke from the coma incredibly debilitated. Just standing with help was virtually impossible. My toes on
both feet were frost bitten (from the low blood pressure). I was deaf in my left ear (seems to be resolving).
Since then, I have been fighting , fighting to come back. A little bit each day. making steady progress on my recovery no
Everyone tells me how very very sick I was, and how close I came.
-Michael
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