Thank you Mary, It has only been four days but even those have seemed surreal. Today I closed myself off from the world and just cried all day but I had spent yesterday making calls and generally...
Thank you all for your lovely messages. It certainly helps to know I am not alone. So much has happened over the last three days that I am do not know where I am. Although Alan was in hospital for...
Just to let you know that Alan passed away this morning (Sat) in hospital. He had been getting frailer and was suffering with weeping legs in addition ot the ascites, jaundice, cirrhosis and HE. Even...
Natasha, I believe our equivalent in the UK of a heptalogist is the consultant of the grastroenterology team. Their Registrar is the next doctor down who you may see but they should be able to give...
Natasha, Emma, Sorry it's been a few days since your posts but things keep getting tougher. I have made the decision not to have him back home as although we could have carers come in 3 to 4 times a...
Natasha, thanks for asking. Hubby was quite lucid yesterday but today is very confused. The HE is definitely getting worse and the doctors have now officially classed him as having no capacity to...
He is on all the usual meds, thiamine, vitamins, spironolactone, lactulose etc and since he's been in hospital he has been put on steroids. As well as using the Child-Pugh scoring system they use the...
Emma, A&E is the same as the ER - Accident and Emergency. He is still very poorly. He has been in hospital for three weeks following a fall which left him with a small bleed on the brain as well...
Thank you Emma, that means a lot. Ever since 2005 when he had his first bleed and the cirrhosis was diagnosed all the hospital staff have been brilliant; nobody has treated him any differently even...
Wife of a drinker, I am not sure about the veins, but i have found that ordinary GP's put any and everything down to the alcohol and almost seem to dismiss it. I was warned over a year ago that when...
I joined the forum in January and was so grateful for the information given by others who had experienced this horrible illness and I gained a lot of help from reading the threads. It was such a...
Kelli I am sorry for your loss. You are in my prayers. Please take care of yourself xx...
Hi 'Sadwife' My email is on my profie too. Hope to talk to you soon Val...
Sadwife I know exactly how you are feeling as we had the same news this week. I have had all the same emotions and still can't work out why hubby won't even try to give up the drink. I too am...
Hi A few weeks ago I posted a thread about my husband as after reading some of the messages I found I could really relate to these. I found the replies very helpful and have been following the...
Hi Sadwife, My hubby is at exactly the same stage and I have all the same feelings of confusion as you. I too am learning a lot from all the folks and their experiences and it really is giving me...
Hi, Thanks for all your thoughts. Al is seeing a hepatologist on March 1st. I am expecting the blood results to be really bad as he is still drinking. He does not have hepatitis, his LD is all...
Thanks to you both. The doctors are still quite good with Al and we are due to see the consultant on March 1st. He is determined to continue drinking even though he's been told enough times what is...
Thank you for your welcome. Yes Al's ESLD is due to alcohol abuse; he has been a drinker for over 40 years. He is aware that he should stop drinking but openly admits he will not give it up. His meds...
Hi I have just found the website and after reading some of the replies I felt that they were talking to me. I read a topic from Bea G from last month and she could have been me. My husband, Al, has...