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ALL: Please ping everyone.

Prayers for Gods MERCY in Marilyns situation. See Beach_Babes post 199

Beach_Babe;

Is there "any" talk of a liver transplant?

She would be at the top of the list in her condition.

I'm praying so hard for her. That she was let to get in this condition is horrifying.

I am not a doctor, and I know she had the spinal abcess too, but from what you were telling us about the spinal abcess and what needed to be done with regard to that, and from what I know about liver disease being a liver patient for all these years and having known a TON of liver patients, the care she was getting (I should say LACK of care) concerning her liver, really frightened me.

I say this from knowing a TON of liver patients as friends, and from being a patient myself. Things just weren't right, and you are right in feeling the way you did. You had a "gut" feeling..and those feelings are usually right. I'm not surprized that Shands was HORRIFIED with Marilyn's condition.

For Marilyns sake and for the sake of future patients, I hope you take Oncalla to task for how they treated Marilyn. This was so wrong. It makes me sick to my stomach just reading about it. I hurt so bad for you Alice. I think reading your frustration and hearing your cry for help all this time, is why I have felt such a need to be involved. It wasn't only because Marilyn has the same illness that I have, it was because I could feel your love for her, and I knew things just were NOT right. I wanted to help you so badly. And I felt so helpless to do anything.

After you sent me her lab numbers, and I saw the increase in her Bili's and her Albumins... I knew then they needed to get a Liver specialist in. That they didn't,..and that they CONTINUED to abuse her liver the way they did, IS CRIMINAL.

I am so thankful that Marilyn has been transferred to Shands.

Shands is a Liver Transplant Hospital and from everything I've heard, an excellent hospital.

I am going to pray that Marilyn is put on a Transplant List.

I know it seems like she is too sick to be helped. But remember,.. it is ONLY DYING patients, who get TRANSPLANTED. Only dying people are on the list.

The only thing that may prevent her from getting one, is her spinal abcess. I've been so concerned with her liver of late, I haven't even asked if her spinal abcess resolved... did it?

It could disqualify her if it is still abcessed. If that happens, you tried everything you could do to save her. Then again, it may not.

I will be praying so hard for her, and for you and Claudia.

If it is Gods Will for her to be transplanted, it WILL be done.

Maybe with GOOD medical care, they can even fix her abcess. Who knows. All I know is you have done all you can. It truly is in the Fathers hands now.

She is in good hands.

God Bless you FRiend.