EXCERPT FROM EMAIL TO FRIEND WHOSE LITTLE GIRL WITH BILIARY ATRESIA IS DOING EXTREMELY WELL
She has enquired about Rose's progress, and I'm replying here:
". . . the transplant surgeon last Friday reckoned that she's "normal". A couple of her liver numbers are still to settle on exactly normal, but they're hovering down near normal. Bilirubin, albumin and ALP are all looking beautiful. (Her last bilirubin level was 2, a big drop from her very orange days that had her bilirubin up over 600!)
But getting away from numbers, she's talking away, scooting around on her bum (her version of crawling), eating like a horse, sleeping like a top, is pushing 11 kilos. She's a very robust little girl. (We always knew she was mentally and emotionally robust, but now her body is coming to the party too.)
She ditched her nasogastric tube at the end of November and is on minimal medication. She hasn't had so much as a cold since she was discharged, despite exposure to all the germs in the school community that Lewis and Hannah must carry home with them every day."
She has enquired about Rose's progress, and I'm replying here:
". . . the transplant surgeon last Friday reckoned that she's "normal". A couple of her liver numbers are still to settle on exactly normal, but they're hovering down near normal. Bilirubin, albumin and ALP are all looking beautiful. (Her last bilirubin level was 2, a big drop from her very orange days that had her bilirubin up over 600!)
But getting away from numbers, she's talking away, scooting around on her bum (her version of crawling), eating like a horse, sleeping like a top, is pushing 11 kilos. She's a very robust little girl. (We always knew she was mentally and emotionally robust, but now her body is coming to the party too.)
She ditched her nasogastric tube at the end of November and is on minimal medication. She hasn't had so much as a cold since she was discharged, despite exposure to all the germs in the school community that Lewis and Hannah must carry home with them every day."
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