Re: Recent Diagnosis/How Much Time?

[Guest guest]

Congratulations on yor transplant!! Being happy and feeling good are

the keys. I am taking my diagnosis as a reason to do stuff I'd been

putting off and/or afraid of doing. And just being more positive in

general.

>

> One thing I'd like to add to the others who've answered you: I

had PSC

> for at least 17 years, and about 5 weeks ago I had a liver

transplant.

> For about the first 12 years of that time, I thought of a

transplant as

> a very negative thing, but over the last few months (and

especially

> since the transplant) I've come to realize that it is really a new

> chance at life. If your PSC does progress to the point where you

need

> a transplant (which may not happen for a very long time if at all)

it is

> a great and almost miraculous thing. I'm only five weeks post

> transplant and I feel about 15 years younger! I went roller

blading

> today, bicycling yesterday, canoing the day before, and... hmm I

think

> the day before that I played a video game! ;-)

>

> PSC isn't easy. The last 17 years have been hard, but they've

also been

> great years. In that time I graduated college, got a job, got

married,

> had two beautiful kids, built an addition on my house (just

finishing

> that up now), and in general lived a very full life. I still have

some

> hard things to face I'm sure, but life goes on because of a

wonderful

> gift I've been given, and I plan to live it to the full!

>

> athan

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