Hi Readers,
You may or may not know that I received surprising results from my health checkup in Taiwan this summer. I knew that something was probably wrong when my doctor kept saying "huh?" when he was looking at the sonograph of my belly region.
Basically, I have a tumor in my liver. To be more specific, there are 3 tumors.
These developed over the span of a year, as they were not there when I had my health checkup a year ago. Quite scary! Although he informed me that it's rare for tumors in the liver to turn malign, he did give me one piece of advice:
Stop Drinking.
I think I'll take his advice. But as I've found out already, it's easier said than done. I feel like it's going to hinder my ability to be social, or to go out with friends. Last night already, I broke the rule and had 2 beers (which I consider to be a very low number). Granted, I don't think that'll do any harm, but it was almost an impulse to drink. I'm not sure why, but a mere 2 years after getting drunk for the first time, the alcohol culture has already become so ingrained in myself that it's going to be very hard to stop.
But I must, for my health. So from this point on, I begin the quest to discover the key to saying no to alcohol!
-FCDH
Saturday, September 4, 2010
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I'm so sorry about your liver. That would be really tough for me to abstain from drinking. Maybe you can still go to bars, but just order a soda instead? Tonic and lime is also a nice non-alcoholic drink. At parties or people's houses you can just ask for soda or orange juice. The right sort of friends should understand and be supportive. Anyone who's a jerk about it isn't worthwhile anyway :-/ Anyway that's just my wisdom. We need to talk soon!
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