Mom's update

OK, so I kept waiting for a pause in Mom's status to do an update - but that doesn't look like it is happening soon, so here goes.
They did a biopsy on her liver mass, and now are confirming that it is cancerous. This bumped Mom up on the list, and so we have to be ready at any time to drop and go to San Francisco for a liver. They could call today, or not for another 6 months - so this is the waiting game. Since she isn't as sick as a lot of people, that means she isn't as high on the list - but it also means that she can take an Extended Criteria Donor liver (one from an older donor, overweight donor, or donor who had Hep. B - but the liver is clear from Hep B), whereas a sicker patient higher on the list wouldn't be able to take one of these livers - so she could get a liver any day!
Tanya is coming over today so we can brainstorm how to raise the money for the things that her insurance doesn't cover (their financial clearance person said that we needed to have $5,000 - $10,000 raised). So we are going to get that rolling now.
Mom is doing fairly well since her surgery, except she is still very bloated (they are checking her labs, and had us do some more tests to figure our what is going on with that). She looks like she is 8 months pregnant, and gets "cankles" easily now. They think she is just retaining fluids, but checking to make sure it isn't something more serious (like her liver isn't functioning well anymore). So we will keep you updated as we have more information.
Thanks again for all your thoughts and prayers! We are truly blessed!