15 steps forwad half a step back

Ron had to go back to the hospital last night, he was having extreme back pains for the last two or three nights. While his abdominal pain seemed to be subsiding slowly the back pain seemed to be getting worse and the medication they gave us to help him wasn’t working anymore. So, I called the 24hour number they gave us to see if the on call doctor knew what we should do. We waited about an hour and when he called, I explained our concerns with his back pain. Ron didn’t have a fever or any o the symptoms that would point to infection or rejection so he said that it was up to us to take him back to the hospital or not. Ron was just so uncomfortable and it wasn’t getting better so as soon as I got off the phone, I put his shoes on and we walked across the street to the ER.
We were checked in at 12:30am and the ER doctor (Doctor Anna Carl) came to see him right away. Ron explained to her what was going on. She did the doctor thing, and did his workup. She took labs and called the OnCall liver surgeon. She told us that she didn’t believe it had anything to do with the liver, there wasn’t any sign of complications to the liver, but she was going to wait until she heard back from the surgeon before moving forward. She said at they would most likely admit him, just as a precaution.
About 5 hours later, Doctor Woo came in to look at him. She is one of the doctors that work directly with Ron’s liver specialist Doctor Bonichini. She did another more extensive evaluation and came to the same conclusion, the liver seems to be fine, but she ordered a few more labs and an x-ray. After, Doctor Woo came back in she said that they were going to admit him so that they could figure out why he was having this pain and try to heal it, rather than just continuing to cover the pain with meds.
Although I was incredibly sad to have to admit him, it was a relief to know that at the very least they are able to manage his pain there and hopefully find a way to treat it. They brought him back upstairs and got him in a room on the orthopedics floor until a room on the transplant floor opens up. When I was finally able to get Ron settled in, he made me go back to the apartment to try to get some sleep. I was 8am by then and he was getting really concerned for me. I had been running on 3-5 hour sleep a night since last Wednesday and I am sure I looked worse than he felt. So tearfully eyed, I reluctantly left, immediately crawled in to bed with my jeans on and fell asleep.
I will continue to keep updating you all. Thanks for checking in on Ron!