13 Mar - Promising Trend

Looks like the ERCP really helped Sarah's liver. Her first blood test this morning after yesterdays procedure showed a promising trend: bilirubin is down to 4.2 and the other liver function numbers have also improved. Sarah is feeling better this morning and she'll be able to come back home after receiving a unit of blood to boost up her counts and also a CT scan of her liver and surrounding abdominal area. Based on the ultrasound, we expect to see quite a few large tumors but at least we'll know what we're dealing with. If bilirubin gets down below 3 by her next blood test on Tuesday, then we hope to get Sarah started on Taxol this coming Thursday.

Still very worried but this is a good first step in the coming fight and has bought us some breathing room.