Mike Davis update
Mike Davis is back in the hospital after having to undergo additional surgery to correct a leak in a duct in his new liver.
Davis, a county land-use attorney and former top aide to then County Executive Dutch Ruppersberger, underwent an emergency liver transplant on July 5. He came home later that month.
Ann Davis, Mike’s wife, tells me in an e-mail that her husband was home for about a week before having to go back to Johns Hopkins Hospital.
“There was a leak in one of the connections from old to new duct,” Davis wrote me. “He had to undergo another operation where the doctors basically created a bypass so the liver can drain directly into the intestine. Because of the leak, bile went into Michael’s chest causing not only a lung to collapse and pressure on his heart, but an infection.”
Doctors are continuing to watch the fluid in his chest and monitor for residual infection.
Ann said her husband watched the entire Olympics from his hospital bed.
“Needless to say, Michael is going stir crazy now,” she wrote. “Michael loves the care that he is receiving, but he can’t wait to really get started on recovery at home.”
“He has hit some bumps in the road, but he is improving.”