Hello Rose,
Wow, I wasn't even diagnosed yet in 2009! So glad to hear your innards are happy yet after all these years. I was diagnosed in 2014 with cirrhosis that they were just keeping an eye on. I used to drink quite a bit but quit in 2011. In 2020 my liver started going south taking my kidneys with it. I didn't pee for months having a parasenthesis twice a week to remove an average of 12 liters of fluid per week and at the end dialysis 3 times a week. What a schedule to stay alive. My last test to achieve transplant status was a heart cath that shut my kidneys down from the contrast. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it changed my meld score from 25 to 29. Two weeks later a got gifted with my first transplant two days before my birthday. How's that for a gift? Turned wrong in the hospital bed and fractured my L4 vertebrae to yet! Yes God thru many challenges my way.
You asked what I am enjoying now? Thanking God by rejoining my church choir no. 1, doing fun things with my wife again, watching my mother continue to stay healthy at 89, watching my two sons ( now men) one single and one married a ND has blessed us with two beautiful grandchildren.
I live in northern Wisconsin and was transplanted at UW Hospital and Clinic in Madison.
Being from the north my hobbies are ATVING and Snowmobiling on the hundreds of miles of trails we are blessed with living in a national forest.
Enough about me. I hope you continue to enjoy your second chance at life and continue to cheer on others as ourselves.
Best wishes, FireCat