Well, the verdict is in. There will be no surgery. The doctor wants to start Mark on a new medication, but it costs $1200.00 per months so we have to go through a process to get Medicare to approve it. It will probably take a couple of months. Also, they're going to put him through a sleep test to see if he has apnea, if that might be causing the severe fatigue. Other than that, Mark's heart seems to be functioning reasonably well, and the doc has seen people with worse hemotocrits and saturations who were functional. But what we see "on paper" doesn't match what we see in Mark. Dr. Broberg said straight out, "We're playing a guessing game with you."
We were in the ER tonight. Mark had a lot of pain: liver area, chest, head, arm ... I think today was just a bit much for him.
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