Liver Cirrhosis: An Insider's Thoughts & Feelings

Liver cirrhosis can be described as a life altering complication. Sorting through the emotional turmoil is as difficult as the disease itself. Anxiety, stress, frustration, and pain become your new companions. You have two choices to make, you can either cave in to this disease or you can stand up and fight it. How well you handle your disease will be a play a major role in your life as well as in your relationships with others. How do you tell the people that you love that your life is on jeopardy when you don’t understand it yourself?
Comprehending cirrhosis may seem to be a losing battle. Cirrhosis is irreversible, the scar tissue cannot be regenerated. What counts is how you feel inside. The determination and the will to live that can make all the difference. Once the shock of your diagnosis has worn off and you start learning to live with cirrhosis, the better path you can be on. You may not be able to free yourself from cirrhosis, but you may be able to come to terms with it.