Sunday, April 19, 2009

"You didn't know you were gettin' hung up with a river rat, did you?" These were Tommy's first words to me this morning when I poked my head into the bedroom to see if his eyes were open. It's still true, after all these years, that Tommy has the most colorful language of anyone I've ever gotten "hung up" with!
It's been a good week and a bad week. On the good side, Tommy is walking up a storm on the back porch--yesterday he set a new record of 12 laps (each lap is a trip from one end of the porch to the other, with walker and Connie). On the bad side, Tommy's second blood test again indicated elevated numbers in his liver panel--in particular, the alkalyne phosphatase and the GGT--and when those numbers are elevated, the most likely cause is some kind of obstruction in the bile ducts (such as gall stones, or a tumor, or scar tissue). Consequently, Dr. Raj ordered a CT scan, and I took Tommy for that on Friday; so we should hear tomorrow from Dr. Raj whether we're any closer to solving that mystery.