On the morning of August 12th 2012, I woke up and felt physically sick. I’d woken up like this every day for over a year. But, this morning it was blood. I remember my heart sinking. When I was sick for the third time and it was still blood, I knew something was seriously wrong. I’d been at a party the night before and drank heavily.
This was something I’d done every day and night for months. I made my excuses and went home to bed. When I woke a couple of hours later I thought the sickness had passed, suddenly I was violently sick again and it was more blood than before. My partner took me to hospital where I continued being sick. I was rushed into a room with a large amount of medical staff around me. The last thing I remember was someone saying I’d lost a litre of blood just in the waiting room.
When I woke hours later it was all a blur. I was told my liver was so badly damaged that seven varices (veins) in my oesophagus had burst open due to the pressure of my liver trying to filter the blood unsuccessfully. They had stopped the bleeding, but it wasn’t good news. I was still high risk as my liver was shutting down and more varices could rupture. I’d had a blood transfusion and another one the following day. For the first few days I was told my liver showed no signs of improvement. Also my kidneys, spleen and gallbladder were damaged, I had gout, hepatitis, mild pneumonia, pancreatitis was malnourished and dehydrated. Also a huge amount of fluid built up between my liver and stomach (ascites), which had to be drained. I was so weak I couldn’t walk.
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