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Now I’m in the second, better waiting room
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WWAW your skin and eyeballs turning yellow?
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Do you patpost? This will determine sympathy levels..
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Your kidney and/or liver is tapping out. Go to the ER.
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Iinger longer..He's literally giving us live updates from the emergency room.
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I just saw his skin and eyes are yellow and he drinks too much. I panicked, I'm.... I'm sorry
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I have cirrhosis
My legs were itchy as FUCK especially when it's hot, that started about eight years ago. Feels like having a sunburn that's peeling.
Eyes are yellow-ish but it comes and goes. Drinking a great deal of water helps with that, but since Mother Nature has a fucked up sense of humor, drinking a lot of water makes the edema worse.
This summer I had a new problem, which is that my legs got so full of fluid they were weeping, and that led to a bunch of sores which were probably the most painful thing I've ever experienced AND THEY WOULDN'T HEAL. Holy leg ulcer Batman, this fucking sucks!
Elevating my legs and walking a lot helped, and it looks like they probably won't have to amputate anything. (Fingers crossed.)
Mortality rate for this is something like 50/50 in the span of five years. Fun times.
Oh yeah, I'm a multimillionaire and spent $150K on health care this year. Can't imagine what my lifespan would be if I wasn't wealthy.
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Jesus I need to stop drinking.
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From alcohol? If so how much were you boozing
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Not PFG
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David Bowie and Lou Reed both died of liver stuff, in their cases it was hepatitis related from doing a lot of drugs and having a lot of unprotected sex in their 20s
So it took almost 40 years to catch up with them, but took them out eventually
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Yep. If it was from drugs I'd probably be dead already.
I drank something like 1600 days continuously and by the time I quit, I was up to about a liter a day
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In 5 years can you leave me some?
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I think Mrs Horner would protest
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In hindsight there's a bunch of crap that would have gone a long way towards making things less shitty:
1) Statistically, you're way more likely to succeed at "cutting back" than going cold turkey. The failure rate of going cold turkey is something like 99%. A huge part of the reason my intake levels were off the charts is that you build up a tolerance. When I was 22, two pints were enough to get the room spinning, if I drank too fast. By the time I was 40, I could drink from sunup to sundown and if I paced myself, I was 100% functional. Like, I barely even noticed that I was drinking. If you start drinking at 7am and stop at midnight, you can knock back 34 drinks without ever having more than two per hour. That's 1.7 liters of vodka. For instance, one afternoon I was at a work event at noon on a Thursday, and one of my coworkers was going on and on about what a drunk our coworker was, and that "he was drunk at noon" and that he was just embarassing himself. My coworker was completely unaware that I'd started drinking at 8am and I already had six shots under my belt and it wasn't even lunchtime.
2) As alluded to in my Lou Reed / David Bowie comment, there's some things that will fuck up your liver in a hurry. One dicey prostitute or one week of mixing painkillers and booze can shave a ton of time off your liver.
3) If you look at the mortality stats, the thing that kills alcoholics is often heart disease and GI issues. In my case it was GI issues. Basically I had internal bleeding. The thing that's so embarassing about this, is that I could have avoided the bleeding with plain ol' prilosec. I'd read some studies that people on Prilosec are prone to cancer, so I'd avoided it my entire life. Now I take it every day. But I had 25 YEARS of evidence that I had GI issues, and I just chalked them up to "this will blow over." Like, even in my 20s, I had heartburn constantly. By the time I was in my 30s, I had to go to Urgent Care every few years because I'd get heartburn so bad, I would be unable to move off the couch. WHEN YOU HAVE HEARTBURN SO BAD YOU CAN'T SEE STRAIGHT YOU MIGHT HAVE GI ISSUES. A lot of people who die near-instantly from boozing, are people who have something burst in their GI tract. They just bleed out like a stuck pig and even if they get to the hospital and in front of a surgeon in 20 minutes (very unlikely) they STILL might not make it. That's who I wound up with the whopper of a medical bill, I took a dump that indicated internal bleeding and got to the hospital before anything exploded. (If your shit looks like coffee grounds, go to the hospital NOW.)
4) Get to know what killed your relatives. In my case, I had a relative die of this, so I have a genetic predisposition to GI issues. I know someone who's adopted, that died suddenly. Chances are good that they could have avoided death if they'd dug up their family's medical history.
5) I know that it's scary as fuck to get bloodwork done when you're a raging alcoholic, but you should really do that. In my case, my liver was astonishingly resilient to booze, but it showed stuff that I didn't even know was wrong with me. That can save your life. You're going to feel pretty dumb if you kick booze entirely, thinking that's the only thing that's wrong with you, and then it turns out there's something booze related that's a bigger problem. In my case, GI issues were a bigger problem than my liver (but my GI issues were caused by a failing liver.)
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It's most associated with liver disease really. Also pancreatic cancer and/or pancreatitis. I knew someone who went as yellow as a Simpson's character and they were dead 10 months later of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Funnily enough jaundice is extremely common in newborn babies and is rarely anything to worry about.
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This is true, and as soon as I posted I knew I'd get corrrrected. I lost a wonderful middle school English teacher to kidney disease of some sort, she was Springfield yellow as well the last time I saw her. In any case, he should change his name to John Dice or sumptin tsss