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Weezer said:
Anyone else ever have weird olfactory flashbacks? Lately, I've been having flashbacks to the smells of the hospital when I was in there for my transplant. Weirding me out and I don't like it.



No @Souce , no one wants to hear about you smelling your farts.
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What was it you had replaced?
 
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Weezer said:
The list is based off of need. When I reached the top of the list, things moved fairly quickly. I had a new liver within two weeks. That was 5 years ago.
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Yes, no equivalent of dialysis for end-stage liver failure. It’s pretty much transplant or RIP.

I’m glad they were able to get you a match, although I know that post-transplant can be pretty brutal.
 
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ArdentVol said:
the brothers in their nudie suit glory
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Ok, I’ll confess, made me look. I feared that they had worn flesh-colored unitards or something. Thankfully, no:

For The Gilded Palace of Sin cover shoot, Parsons ordered custom-made Nudie Cohn suits for the entire band.
Bedazzled images of pills, weed and nude women adorned Parsons’ now-iconic Nudie suit — as did, perhaps as counterpoint, a cross on the jacket’s back. Cohn son-in-law and head tailor Manuel Cuevas rendered the designs because Cohn’s chief embroiderer refused to stitch such salacious depictions herself. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors had previously crafted the gold lamé suit Elvis Presley wore on the 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrongcover. According to legend, as a young child in Georgia, Parsons saw Presley perform at the Waycross Auditorium — and even got to shake hands with the star afterward, sealing his destiny. Parsons’ Gilded Palace suit is now on display in Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame. But it wasn’t Parsons’ first Nudie. Arriving in Los Angeles a few years prior during his International Submarine Band period, Parsons acquired a red Nudie adorned with yellow submarines.The Gilded Palace of Sin may have bombed commercially, but it turned out aces for Cohn. Nudie clients soon grew to include Janis Joplin, Sly Stone, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead and Mick Jagger. Nudie himself even graced the cover of Rolling Stone. “Through the Burritos, I got to be kind of well-known to the rock & roll people,” Cohn, who died in 1984, once said, “and I really appreciate what they did for me along those lines.”
Flying Burrito Brothers' 'The Gilded Palace of Sin': 10 Things You Didn't Know
 
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VolNExile said:
Yes, no equivalent of dialysis for end-stage liver failure. It’s pretty much transplant or RIP.

I’m glad they were able to get you a match, although I know that post-transplant can be pretty brutal.
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It was. I went through a host of problems after transplant. But I think I would have recovered a lot better over time if not for falling and breaking my back 5 months after my transplant. It wasn't even a bad fall, but they think the steroids post transplant had probably weakened my bones. Back hasn't been the same since. I can only walk like 10-15 minutes before the pain forces me to sit. Been to doctors, but nothing has really helped. And they don't want to put me on any long-term pain meds because they could harm the liver. Tylenol is all I'm allowed to take on a regular basis, and even that is limited to no more than 2000mg a day. Not that it really helps.
 
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Weezer said:
It was. I went through a host of problems after transplant. But I think I would have recovered a lot better over time if not for falling and breaking my back 5 months after my transplant. It wasn't even a bad fall, but they think the steroids post transplant had probably weakened my bones. Back hasn't been the same since. I can only walk like 10-15 minutes before the pain forces me to sit. Been to doctors, but nothing has really helped. And they don't want to put me on any long-term pain meds because they could harm the liver. Tylenol is all I'm allowed to take on a regular basis, and even that is limited to no more than 2000mg a day. Not that it really helps.
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Yeah, chronic pain just sucks, especially when anything that might help is too risky. It must be hard to keep your head up sometimes. I’m sorry.
 
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Weezer said:
It was. I went through a host of problems after transplant. But I think I would have recovered a lot better over time if not for falling and breaking my back 5 months after my transplant. It wasn't even a bad fall, but they think the steroids post transplant had probably weakened my bones. Back hasn't been the same since. I can only walk like 10-15 minutes before the pain forces me to sit. Been to doctors, but nothing has really helped. And they don't want to put me on any long-term pain meds because they could harm the liver. Tylenol is all I'm allowed to take on a regular basis, and even that is limited to no more than 2000mg a day. Not that it really helps.
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Medical marijuana
 
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VolNExile said:
Yes, no equivalent of dialysis for end-stage liver failure. It’s pretty much transplant or RIP.

I’m glad they were able to get you a match, although I know that post-transplant can be pretty brutal.
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My sister went quick when the cancer moved to her liver. The worst death I have seen.
 
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Weezer said:
It was. I went through a host of problems after transplant. But I think I would have recovered a lot better over time if not for falling and breaking my back 5 months after my transplant. It wasn't even a bad fall, but they think the steroids post transplant had probably weakened my bones. Back hasn't been the same since. I can only walk like 10-15 minutes before the pain forces me to sit. Been to doctors, but nothing has really helped. And they don't want to put me on any long-term pain meds because they could harm the liver. Tylenol is all I'm allowed to take on a regular basis, and even that is limited to no more than 2000mg a day. Not that it really helps.
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brother in law had one about 20 years ago, hard to believe it was that long ago, have heard about the pain, man
hope it improves
 
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rocytop2624 said:
My sister went quick when the cancer moved to her liver. The worst death I have seen.
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My dad died from liver cancer a year before my transplant. I was actually diagnosed with cirrhosis before him, but his turned into cancer whereas mine did not. And he wasn't a candidate for transplant because of his age and other health issues. In some ways, I carry survivor's guilt because I made it through, and he did not. Honestly, that made it a lot tougher.
 
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Weezer said:
It was. I went through a host of problems after transplant. But I think I would have recovered a lot better over time if not for falling and breaking my back 5 months after my transplant. It wasn't even a bad fall, but they think the steroids post transplant had probably weakened my bones. Back hasn't been the same since. I can only walk like 10-15 minutes before the pain forces me to sit. Been to doctors, but nothing has really helped. And they don't want to put me on any long-term pain meds because they could harm the liver. Tylenol is all I'm allowed to take on a regular basis, and even that is limited to no more than 2000mg a day. Not that it really helps.
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Tylenol is what is bad for the liver. And that is the hardest thing on a liver when taking percocet it's the Tylenol in it that is bad on your liver. If you are in bad pain there should be something they can give you that would help and wouldn't hurt your liver as bad as Tylenol does.
 
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Weezer said:
My dad died from liver cancer a year before my transplant. I was actually diagnosed with cirrhosis before him, but his turned into cancer whereas mine did not. And he wasn't a candidate for transplant because of his age and other health issues. In some ways, I carry survivor's guilt because I made it through, and he did not. Honestly, that made it a lot tougher.
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Your Dad is supposed to go before you and that's the way he would have wanted it.
 
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rocytop2624 said:
Tylenol is what is bad for the liver. And that is the hardest thing on a liver when taking percocet is the Tylenol in it. If you are in bad pain there should be something they can give you that would help and wouldn't hurt your liver as bad as Tylenol does.
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Advil is even worse. So Tylenol is it. But like I said, how much I can take is limited.
 
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