I was now still in ICU in bed for two months straight. Never standing or getting out of bed once. I was pooping myself for two months, getting cleaned by nurses. When they had to clean me it was extremely painful they had to put me on each side.
I had over 100 staples around my stomach and up my chest from the liver transplant so every time they would put me on my side to clean me I oh my goodness the pain! I cannot explain the pain in words it was horrific just to be clean and bathed twice sometimes three times a day.
I had a lot of delirium between all the medicine that I was on. I had hoses in my neck. I had hoses in my chest. hoses on each side of my stomach. I was hooked up to so many machines that were behind me and all around me on each side.
I could not believe it! there were so many different types of beeps from these machines constantly going on I felt like I was 10% alive but I was alive nevertheless.
Then I felt something terrible in my body something awful. again I cannot explain in words but my doctors tell me that I have sepsis and it is a very bad bout of sepsis. I don’t remember much after that but I remember opening my eyes and asking them what happened and they said that I had septic shock.
They said that I was lucky not to have something amputated on me because when you have sepsis it’s an infection that goes so deep all over your body and it spreads so deep that sometimes in order to stop it from spreading doctors have to amputate something on you so that doctors can stop it in its tracks. I had no amputation I survived the sepsis and septic shock.
My wife was in the hospital every day with me I fought every second. My wife is my rock! she explained to me that the doctors had told her that I had acute kidney failure three times already during this time! I had to just keep fighting.
I survived Covid, I survived sepsis, I survived septic shock, CMV , and I survived acute kidney failure three times.
Here comes another challenge !! now I was told by my doctors that I have CMV which is a blood infection. that occurs sometimes after transplant surgery it’s an infection that humans receive from the surgery room doctors told me it’s spreading and it’s spreading fast.
The doctors had told my wife and me that CMV could be deadly if it’s not stopped and reproduces rapidly in the bloodstream. After a week of treating it through transfusions, they got it under control for the time being.
I wanted out of the ICU but I know I would still be in there for a while I was fighting to survive every second of every minute of every day.