Living Proof
(Photos of My Recovery from Liver Transplant Surgery)
Rich before transplant
Abdomen swollen with fluid--hard as a rock.
Miserable!! Just plain miserable!
Omaha bound. Rich boards jet plane in Goodland, Kansas,
enroute to liver transplant with crew members of Eagle Medical of Hays, Kansas
University Nebraska Medical Center,
Omaha, Nebraska
Construction nearly complete on the Lied Transplant Center
designed specifically for liver transplants.
Want to learn more about the Lied Center, email me!
Adult Intensive Care Unit (AICU)--just hours after surgery
ICU--
Tubes, wires, whistles, buzzers and bells!!
Nurse Inglish keeps watch over her patient in ICU
Just hours after surgery--
Ultrasound confirms good blood flow in new liver!!
2 days after surgery and feeling great--
can't keep a good man down!
Liver Special Care Unit--first "reel" food
A nurse's work is never done--
Liver Special Care Unit nurse works with naso-gastric tube
My nurses received "Special Treasures" candy
because all of them were "special treasures" to me!
Cooperative Care Pilot Unit Nurse Georgia
demonstrates procedures that "Care Partners" will be responsible for completing
Physician's Assistant Jin takes time to say "cheese" with me
Daily rounds for the transplant team and students.
Sometimes, doctors'educations come at the expense of the patient--
at times, making the patient feel as though they are on display in a "side-show"
Jin with Dr. McCashland and Transplant Coordinating Nurse, Laurel Williams
Transplant Surgeon, Ira Fox
Healing is progressing well;
however, fluid build up in abdomen and legs persists
Stapled area (suture line) not healing well--
area opened and treatment begun to allow healing from inside- out
Physical Therapy--
8 days after transplant--
Living the "suite" life just 6 miles from the hospital
Twenty-one days following liver transplant surgery,
Rich was released from the hospital and allowed to go home!!
