I apologize to those who still read my blog here. I know that I said recently that I would be
back that evening or the next day to post again. However, we have recently
received some news about the Lycan’s health and I have been doing a bit of
research. After starting this post, I
decided that this should be a multi-part posting. Today will be part 1 and contain the background
story. LOL
Many of you many remember me ranting about the Lycan’s
family, mainly his mother the crazy lunatic (CL). Well, she is like most people I know and they
cannot tell you the names of the medications they are on or why they are taking
them. There have been many things that
she has told the Lycan where I have doubted the accuracies. One of the things I always wondered about however
was that his sperm donor (SD) has this “blood disease”. He was not treated for it with medications,
but one time one of them mentioned that he had to have blood removed ever so
often. I never thought anything of
it. Until recently…
Last year the Lycan had routine labs done when I was
finally able to drag him into the clinic.
One of the things found was that his liver counts were elevated. He had been on a cholesterol lowering medication,
so the first thing our provider did was to stop that. After three months, we repeated the labs and,
while they were better, the counts were still high. So, he got a liver ultrasound and it found
that he had fatty liver disease. This
finding is not problematic in itself, the main course of treatment is to lose
weight (which we both can stand to do) and watch the alcohol intake.
Now, the Lycan did partake of quite a bit of alcohol
in his teen years, but I would not characterize it as excessive compared to the
majority of the people I encountered in my own teens. Now a days, if he has a beer after mowing the
yard it is rare. I mean we have at least
a six-pack out in the garage fridge that has been there for about two
years. Therefore, I was a bit miffed
when our provider continued to tell him to go easy on the alcohol
consumption.
As some know, I have recently changed positions in the
organization for which I work and it was more convenient for our family to
change health care providers.
More to follow tomorrow.
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