My husband just had TIPs done 5 days ago to help reduce his ascites from cirrhosis . His procedure took longer than expected - almost 5 hours but doctors are happy with his progress so far and his abdominal fluid seem to be minimal the last 3 days. He is still in hospital as they are monitoring him in preparation for his inguinal hernia repair tomorrow). I have a few questions: 1)For how long after should he rest and take things very easy? 2)Should he follow any special long-term diet/nutrition? (hospitals and clinicians are not great at strongly recommending nutrition ). They have scheduled a CT scan in a month to ensure the shunt is in place and working well but we just want to make sure that he is doing the best thing for healing slowly but surely.