Day 65

Seems I'm apologizing a lot these days for infrequent posts, but my health's been a bit of a mixed bag and it's sometimes tough to work up the energy to make one of these posts.

I'm still a bit preoccupied mentally with what I went through with my kidneys and liver in the last 30 days. The organs are all on the mend now, but it took me a while to grasp just how close to death I was. Just a day or two, really, of things continuing as they were and I would've been gone. Going into this process I prepared myself for that reality, but this was different. I wasn't conscious. I wasn't aware. My liver stopped working and I was sliding away, and I came awfully close to just leaving and not knowing it. That's not easy to take.

Thankfully I'm back home and trying to get back to normal. I've been left with almost 20 excess kilos of fluid in my belly that we're trying to get rid of, so now I just look like a fat vampire.

Oddly enough, the new immune system seems to be doing great and I've had no problems there, which is a nice bit of luck. The whole liver and kidneys thing just turned out to be bad luck. The head of the transplant program said in 23 years I was the first guy to ever go through that. Once again I'm a medical curiosity. Never a good thing.