Just wanted to welcome you and I’m sorry to hear of your dads illness. My name is ramona and I had a transplant in July of 2015. I’m on my 4th yr post transplant. I was 47 yrs old. I’m from MD,Baltimore county. My transplant was done at the university of Maryland. I lived in the hospital for almost 2 yrs. If I was released,I would be back in the ER within 12-14 days. I had 2 main problems,fluid and HE. I was about 180 at the most when I got sick. By transplant date I weighed 420lbs. All fluid. Docs had to tap me every 12 days and each time they fulled out 6 2 liter bottles. Image a 2liter bottle of coke. Now at 5 more 2liters to that. Every 2 weeks. I now weigh 150lbs at 5 foot 9. I also lived with HE every single day for almost 2 solid yrs. I had it bad! My ammonia levels were 190-over 200. Comatose levels. I drank lactolose all day and all night long! Every single day for almost 2 yrs. Sorry,I already said that! If you have any questions feel free..... I will try to follow your posts.