Amy's 'momentary trouble'

Amy’s spending another night in the hospital tonight. They had planned on sending her home after they drained some more fluid out of her late this afternoon, but she experienced a very sharp pain afterwards that she never had before and they are still unsure why she’s having these heart PVCs. By the way, they drained a whopping 4.2 liters today, just two days after they drained 3.2 liters! If you’ve been reading, you know that we’ve been concerned as to why this fluid build-up is happening; well, we finally have an answer. Amy had a CT Scan of her abdominal area last night and they revealed the results to us this morning. First, the appearance of the liver shows unchanged since her last scan. This is a VERY good thing! It means that the ‘spots’ that showed up on her liver last time haven’t changed in shape or size and supports the assumption that they are benign Focal Nodular Hyperplasia. Next, the scan also showed that Amy has a clot in her Portal Vein. This vein routes blood from the gastrointestinal tract into the liver. It’s the fact that the flow of blood into the liver is hampered that is causing her fluid build-up. If you remember, when Amy had her ‘whipple’ surgery, the surgeon had to reconstruct Amy’s Portal Vein and in the process narrowed it to some degree. So, they put Amy on a blood thinner to help break-up the clot and a diuretic to help with the fluid build-up.
While we are extremely excited by the news/answers we received today, Amy’s body continues to miss out on needed nutrition as a lot of protein and electrolytes are lost in this fluid and she’s weak enough as it is without this additional loss of nutrients.

I wanted to thank all of you who are praying for us. There are moments where I really feel the weight of this life and I know that if it weren’t for my faith in a very loving, very caring God, the support of friends and family and the prayers of all of you saints, the shear magnitude of it all may very well have over come me.

From Psalm 34:
1 - I will extol the LORD at all times; his praise will always be on my lips.
3 - Glorify the LORD with me; let us exalt his name together.
4 - I sought the LORD, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.
8 - Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
15 - The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their cry;
17 - The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.
18 - The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
19 - A righteous man may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all;

Taste and see that the Lord is good…This is amazing! Have you ever sat down to eat and had no idea what you were about to eat? You can look at it and smell it and both appearance and scent can deceive, but until you actually taste it, you have absolutely no idea whether you’ll like it or not. Here we have God actually giving us a challenge, he’s saying ‘Come, come and taste/see for yourself, try/test me out and see if I am not good…I will prove to you that I am good.’

This is Amy's story as seen and told by me – V