Thank you so much for your good wishes. I'm feeling much better now than I did in the months before the operation. Despite repeated ultrasounds, the seriousness of the situation was not recognized, or only recognized very late. I thought it was due to the effects of the heart attack and the many medications. Instead, it was that the liver was no longer able to excrete waste via bile, and as a result, the waste products/toxins were accumulating in the blood. Because this started gradually and only gradually got worse, I'm only now noticing how I'm feeling. I'm feeling really good again now. The stent – ​​a roughly 10cm long plastic tube that I still have in my bile duct – will be removed in mid-October.