Thursday, December 21, 2006

Oh the joys!

Oh the joys!

So December has been a roller coaster of sickness. First Big Bird decided that he thought he might go and start all the symptoms for a cholangitis attack (wasn't that nice of him). So he called his doctor, and on antibiotics we go, 10 days of Cipro & Faygl. Nice stuff huh! Now he has decided that he wants to get a cold-ya know he is messing with Christmas here and I REFUSE to spend Christmas in the hospital.

Big Bird is really starting to stress out. We got the Medicare enrollment stuff last month. We have the pretty little Red, White & Blue card in our paws (yes it is a pretty little card when you know that card is gonna be worth about 250k). We also signed up for the Medicare Supplement, so that will cover everything that Medicare won't. And believe me they do not make this an easy process. Then to top it off, he got kicked out of Health Services, so now we have to reapply. This is a total headache, cause now we have to reapply for the assistance to pay for the Medicare PartB & PartD I really don't know how the elderly deal with all this. It is overwhelming.

We did give the magic little card to his doctor today,l he is now going to fax over Big Bird's novel to the transplant hospital and get a case file started. So hopefully here in a week or so we will have some dates for transplant evaluation. This is will be stressful and relief all at the same time.

I just wish Big Bird would quit stressing cause trust me, I stress over all this enough for the entire family.....
***BREAKING NEWS- Big Bird had his Liver Transplant on Wednesday December 12, 2007***

Adventures in Big Bird's Liver World is an account of the daily adventures, trials, frustrations and workings of living with PSC. My brother, aka Big Bird, was diagnosed with PSC in 2000, after battleing UC for many years. He was listed for a transplant in May 2007. We now await the infamous "call". In the mean time, this is where we vent, poise questions and ramble about life, doctor appointments, illness, good days & bad days.