Dan's liver transplant

Firstly sorry for the long gap! I spent April in hospital because of my kidneys being poorly and may was a nice quiet rest.

But June well, June was hectic to say the least. Got a call from the royal free at 2.00 am asking me to head down asap as a stand by for a liver that was allocated to someone else but might not be suitable. Obviously the hospital has to treat it like you are the first choice so blood taken, X-ray, ecgs, gown and teds and meeting anaesthetist and surgeons etc. unfortunately after all the prep and being nil by mouth for 14 hours I was informed that the liver had been transplanted into the first choice patient and I could go home.

7 days later again at 2am I got a phone call from the hospital saying that there was a potential liver and to head down but this time to not rush so I grabbed a little sleep and got there at 7 am. Chaos ensued I was told ‘my liver’ had arrived and was being tested, all the same rigmarole again except this time at mid day they took me to theatre for transplant!

I spent 10 days in icu which I hated I was able to go to the ward after 7 but there were no beds. I had some horrible side effects from various drugs, nightmares and hallucinations from anaesthetic and spasms in my back from an anti fungal drip. Then they thought I had an infection. Eventually I got up to 9 north in a side room and the real recovery process started.

I spent 10 days there but I had my own loo, a better bed and specialist nurses. Within a day they had me up and about.

The only issue was my kidneys were struggling, I’d had to have two lots of dialysis in icu once on the ward the doctors changed drugs etc and they slowly started to kick in. They are now back to where they were before the transplant.

I came home on July 3rd and have been working and resting in turn ever since. I feel good and feel like I’m improving all the time 😁