Stacey,

Neither my wife nor I had the benefit of this site during my Tx. I was really stubborn during my Tx. I would lie to her about my meds, my cans of VHC, my water, my weight, etc. One day when I had lost my voice (that's happens later on in Tx) I was told by my docs that I needed to be admitted to the hospital for severe dehydration and pain. It was a Sat and I wanted to watch my college football game and that probably wouldn't happen if I did the hospital thing so I refused to go. My wife, my Vida, had had enough and she abuptly screamed "OK THEN JUST LIE THERE AND DIE!!!". With that she left the room and went downstairs. I knew that she would come back but as the minutes passed and turned into an hour I finally realized that I had to put my big boy pants on but too weak to get out of bed and with no voice I had to lie there and wait until she decided I had had enough. She FINALLY did come back; we went to the hospital; I missed my game; the docs told her I was within hours of my kidneys shutting down; and she saved my sorry butt.

At some point you need to be the nurse from hell and at some point he needs to put his big boy pants on.