Meeting with the gas doctor..

So my appointment for my specialist has arrived.

We find the office and wait in the little room and after a little bit are allowed back to the patient room.
after a few min. The doctor comes in and greets us.  The hospital down here had not faxed any information so she was trying to figure everything out.  Finally she decided to just go call them and have them fax my records then. She came back with a stack of papers, and sat down and began to look them over.

After about 10 min or reading and looking at charts and ultra sounds and such.  She looked at my wife and i and told me "well you are not off this planet yet."  which was quite a surprising statement.

Then she told us that "you have 2-3 years left to live without a transplant.". Which i have to say, i dont care how many times you see it on tv, or in movies you can not understand how hard that smacks you in the chest.

Then her next words were "quit work today and go apply for disability. It is the only way we are going to be able to get you a transplant and make sure everything is covered."

She put me on a low sodium diet,  and gave me a stack of prescriptions to get filled and start taking as well as Milk Thistle.

Needless to say, it was a very quiet ride home. I dont think the wife and i said 10 words the whole trip. (this being a 40 min drive).