That’s fucking fantastic, good on you for giving your best for your dad’s health.

I won’t be the first nor last person to commend you on your courage, but I may well be the only person to say that even if you choose to be humble, underneath that humility, let yourself listen to the commendations. You’ll earn and deserve it soon enough.
It’s only on the fifth day after surgery that you start to realize just how over-praised you’ve become, but that’s ages away.

I sincerely hope that your family come through to the other side much healthier. Both physically, socially, and emotionally.

We did.

I chanced upon this series of articles on Liver transplant (most of it yours!) and then you being witness to one! Well there is one connection. My day was also diagnosed with cirrhosis, luckily much earlier, thanks to my mom who started noticing his listlessness and insististed he be tested for every concievable disease causing the loss of appetite, change in sleep patterns and general ‘tiredness’ that she saw! Lucky his LFT showed some skew and doctors immediately got on to further tests and finally confirmed cirrhosis.

To cut a looooonger story short, I am now the liver donor to my dad. I was just going ‘click-happy’ on Liver transplant in wikipedia and was lucky to find a link to your blog. All I can say is Thank you. Can’t find better words.

This surgery is scheduled sometime in April-May 2010. I hope to come back and send you a few nice messages.

Till Then – Take care and once again; Thank You.

My best wishes to your Dad, Mom and Brother.

AK