Sammy’s Update 8-14-09
Hobie - 8/18/2009 11:45 PM
Sammy had his liver surgery on Friday. The surgeons had to remove 85% of his liver. Sammy was cut from side to side across his abdomin.The doctors believe they removed all of the tumor. He did well thru the surgery. He completely bled out, and they had to completely refill his blood volume with donor blood. Donor blood is completely stripped of any nutrients, sugars, electrolites, and vitamins. It will take a few days for his body to start filling his blood with these things. If his sugar drops ...
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Sammy’s update 08-10-09
Hobie - 8/12/2009 10:35 PM
Sammy has been having all kinds of tests done the last two weeks. He is suppose to have his surgery done on the 14th. They are planning on removing most of his liver. He will then be kept sedated and on feeding tubes for a few weeks while he heals. I dont even know if they are going to do the surgery on the scheduled date. Here it is two days before, and I still dont know. On the 10th he had a hearing test,and we found out he is going deaf from the chemo. We were warned about the side effects r...
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Sammy’s Update 07-21-09
Hobie - 7/27/2009 9:28 PM
Last week was the start of round two of Sammy’s chemo treatments,and the hardest yet. He was admited into the hospital on Tuesday morning, and was able to come back to the room on Wensday evening. He has been sick all week from the treatments. On top of all that we find out today that our insurance is refusing to pay for his surgery. They told the surgeons office that there were hospitals closer to our home that could do the surgery for less. Im furious to say the least. I didnt know I had to sh...
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sammys update
Hobie - 7/10/2009 10:32 AM
Sammy just had his second chemo treament on the ninth of July. everything went well, then that night h started to get a fever so we had to go to the E.R.. After six hours they decided not to admit him. The E.R. nurse who tried to acess his port was not properly trained on the new style of acess lines she was using. She did not know she she had to take off the plastic piece to remove the wire to unblock the needle hole to push or pull any blood or medicine. So she pulls the acess line. I would no...
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Sammy’s Update
Hobie - 7/03/2009 12:20 PM
Sammy had his byopsy and port placement last week. He came thru surgery just fine. He had his first chemo treament on Monday June 29th, and the second on Tuesday the 30th. He has a rare type of liver cancer called Hepatoblastoma. To be only 8 months old he sure has alot of fight in him. He has’nt lost his hair yet. The Dr. said It could take a week or two, or he could possibly not lose much at all. I guess time will tell. He has’nt lost too much of his appetite, he has only been sick a few times...
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Sammy’s Update
Hobie - 7/03/2009 12:20 PM
Sammy had his byopsy and port placement last week. He came thru surgery just fine. He had his first chemo treament on Monday June 29th, and the second on Tuesday the 30th. He has a rare type of liver cancer called Hepatoblastoma. To be only 8 months old he sure has alot of fight in him. He has’nt lost his hair yet. The Dr. said It could take a week or two, or he could possibly not lose much at all. I guess time will tell. He has’nt lost too much of his appetite, he has only been sick a few times...
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