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Thought it would be good to give you an update on what is happening health wise and why I am in the hospital again. Not something I really like to talk about since I don't like to think of myself as sick and don't like others treating me as sick either. Here goes...

I have a bad liver...a failing liver. Sometime in the future I am going to need a liver transplant although I am not to that point yet. Part of losing all the weight last year was so I would qualify for the liver transplant list. I'm listed now but not actually bad enough to get a liver.

Because of the liver, my body hasn't been getting all the fluids out of it and they have become really infected--and I mean really infected. Plus there have been complications from the lap band surgery that haven't helped. But this is a temporary setback. It isn't the beginning of "the end" when I get sicker waiting for the transplant. I am having some sort of procedure tomorrow that should really help. Yea, plus they have drained 10 liters of fluid out of me so far. That's twenty pounds of fluid!

Sad news is that I was told yesterday that I definitely shouldn't go on the cruise next week. So I am sad right now but hanging in there.