So, I don’t know where to start a lot has taken place since I received Linus. Here is a quick update before I get to what brought me back to my blog. I got laid off from my job, immediately started with another company and 10 months later went back to my old employer. I fell in love but unfortunately, love didn’t fall in love with me, however, I traveled to some great places and had an amazing journey. Lastly, I learned who my true friends are and lost some along the way. I received some hard to deal with news I’m still coping with till this day but I believe a miracle is coming my way or should I say I'm taking steps to make a miracle happen! Oh and I forgot to mention I bought a house…congrats to me! Basically, LIFE took a toll on me (I’m sure it does everyone) and has been pretty hard navigating but like all things I always make it through with the help of GOD of course.
Now, to why I’m BACK. Well along the journey of switching jobs that beautiful thing called insurance also needed to change and I had a glitch and in turn couldn’t get one of my anti-rejection meds for about 2 ½ weeks. I finally got my meds but it was too late. My awesome autoimmune hepatitis flared and my defenseless immune system saw an opening and attacked Linus. After getting some blood work on October 2, I received a phone call on October 3 from my doc and all I heard was your liver is rejecting and I have to bring you into the hospital. This is definitely not what I wanted to hear and was scared as hell. What did this really mean? Was I going to have to go through another transplant? Would my liver completely fail? How long would I be out of work and in the hospital? An abundance of questions spiraled through my head with tears flowing from my face. I called my mom to let her know I need to go and made another phone call to someone (no answer- a text would have to do) and headed home to pack.
Arriving at the hospital was quite daunting…I was walking the same hallway again only this time with no idea how long I would be there and what the plan would be to save Linus and me. I changed and nurses and the liver team came in to assess me and told me they would be back in first thing in the morning to discuss procedures and the course of action. I was glad because I was tired, scared and just wanted to sleep.
I guess I will see what happens when I wake up…