The Daily Populous Saturday September 7th, 2024 day edition
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PhoneOwn615 on September 7th, 2024 at 01:17 UTC »

Don’t give up! The human body is powerful, I’m rooting for your sobriety and health

xxHikari on September 7th, 2024 at 02:08 UTC »

My stepdad has come back from 17% liver function. Just keep fighting man

markth_wi on September 7th, 2024 at 02:35 UTC »

Had a buddy I used to work with who very nearly drank himself into an early grave. He collapsed one day in the office due to what we thought was stress and a heart condition, and the ER doctors sent poison control folks to go around his office and found 30+ bottles of booze, evidently his liver was starting to fail and they weren't sure if he would live.

They managed to pull him through but gave him just months to live, he was not a good candidate for transplant his UNOS organ network transplant because of his drinking, slowly he got better, and he took his recovery seriously. AA/NA and a good deal of therapy. Working through his demons; and he quit drinking. Full stop. ....he now does part of his running stuff for Donate Life.

But he also got a nutritonist/dietician for monitoring his bloodwork and he hit the gym, starting really slowly at first, a couple of months later he'd pretty much started to see the effects of his diet , as his long troubles with weight faded, while not obese he was a big guy, but he was able to basically use WAY more Shea butter / coconut butter and whatever god-awful stuff to keep his dermal elasticity and as he lost weight you could see it was doing better; then towards Christmas we started to notice his jaundiced look had started to fade, his liver numbers started to look better but his doctors were still very much not optimistic and all I know is that a year and 1/2 later and he was a changed guy , way more fit, muscular and happier for the most part.

The gym provided him with clarity and the diet under-wrote his recovery, so by 2 years out, he did something nobody thought possible, and was running regular sort of mini-marathon/run-swim-run. It's been some years now and he's divorced and single and much happier than I'd known him . We caught up a couple of years back and he seemed in a good way.

Here's hoping OP can have a similar success story and he said something, that always stuck with me.

"When I started working out I didn't know it was going to help or not, but it was one of the only things I COULD do, the docs kept telling me what I couldn't do , what wouldn't happen and I think I just got pissed off, not really at them, but at myself and decided to do something about it - even if it might not work at all.".