is the six month no drinking rule a law or hospital's judgment call for liver transplants?

[djean111]

19. Thanks. It has been 15 years since he died. I spent the final two weeks in the hospital with him,

the nurses let me sleep in the ICU. Which should have been a clue.
He had really really good health insurance, they would have coptered him from Tampa to a university hospital in another state, because of the success rate, but it was felt he would not survive the flight. We spent wasted days trying to get everyone to agree where this should be done. I was harangued by hospital staff, hospital lawyers, the insurance people. At no point did anyone at the hospital tell us things were hopeless.

I am still shell-shocked by the whole thing.

Anyway, for everyone - the signs that, if we had only known, may have gotten him to the doctor sooner - unexplained back pain (he blamed it on a repaired herniated disc), unusual weight gain/swelling in the abdomen, near the end there was a brutal cough, he thought he had the flu, but it was really the swollen liver pressing up against his diaphragm. Yellowing skin from jaundice. Yeah, depressing stuff, but it is imperative to try and catch this before it is too far gone.