Wow! Liverponmymind, your poem says it all! I never drunk a drop after being diagnosed. Well, only once or twice and as soon as it reached my liver, my liver retaliated and threw it up and out!
I really hope that people with drink 'problems' pin that poem to their drinks cabinet. Although I have never been a drinker, I believe for some it is not easy and I truly believe that some people are born susceptible to alcohol and need a drink and I also believe that this is going to be hard for them but, when they succeed (like giving up smoking) they will be so rewarded.
Thats what inspired me to write this poem in the first place Pear, it is the lovely look of all the bottles - they are mesmerising - to toddlers and adults too!
and then the contrast with that and what the consequences can sometimes - not always obviously, but sometimes be.......
Very true words. On 17th March it will be two years since i was rushed to hospital and diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, that was also the last day I drank alcohol. Never thought I could do it ..... Because of that day, I am still alive!
I got the bit 'the broken head' from the nursery rhyme "its raining it's pouring"! and then 'bed' rhymes with 'head'! and as a generality I have heard '''some'''! people wet their beds if they drink too much so it just seemed appropriate!
However, it's rather sad as I wrote this poem a few years before I even knew or had a cause to imagine that I was one day going to become someone who calls themself 'liveronmymind' or roam around the liver community of a forum named Health Unlocked ........... and I added the last two lines but one on, just before posting it here to make it more relevant to liver disease............or rather 'one facet' of liver disease because as we know there are multiple other causes too and alcohol is only one - although most people myself included thought it WAS the ONLY cause of cirhossis!
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