012021

012021

Around 1:30PM in the afternoon we gathered with the doctors in the conference room of the ward for Disease Explanation. Dr. Huang from the General Surgery department explained to dad and me about the details of the liver transplant. He first told us that currently there are approximately1000 patients waiting for liver transplant, but unfortunately on the yearly basis only 80 people got it. Mackay hospital will do 3-4 transplants every year. It is a big operation, which will take around 8-12 hours to complete it. So the complicated part is to connect the vessels, which consist of three main groups: 1. gallbladder vessels 2. hepatic artery and 3.hepatic vein. There could be 4 complications: 1. excessive blood loss (10% chance) 2.Vessels not well connected due to the thinness or vessels stuck; in such case, new transplant will be urgently needed 3.Severe new liver rejection in which high doses of antibiotics will be needed 4. New Liver fails to work. Besides, the doc also said that the cost will be 200,000 NTD for my dad and about 80,000 NTD for me. Very useful info, but kind of terrifying. I trust the Lord.