So, today my dad finally went to a decent doctor at the Mayo Clinic. He had an appointment with a liver specialist. His latest diagnosis is hepatitis C (the really bad one that you have for a long time without knowing it, and it destroys your liver—you can’t be cured of it, you have it forever). he went to the specialst and she pretty much told him that his liver is destroyed. She put him on a low to no sodium diet for a while, until she can get him on the liver transplant waiting list. At this point his only hope for survival is a liver transplant. This all really sucks, and I should be more sad, but I think I sort-of faced the fact of my dad dying after the first mis-diagnosis of colon cancer. I don’t know what to do, but i found out yesterday that the liver is the only organ in the body that can regenerate itself. So, people can be live donors of their liver, because the doctors only take out half, and then both halves regenerate into a normal sized liver a couple weeks after the surgery. One half in the donor, and a new half in the sick person. So, I am trying to find out if I can donate half my liver to my dad. It will be a really long wait for him to get a new one if he has to stay on the waiting list and wait for someone else to die before he gets one. many people die each year just waiting for their transplant. AAAAGGGHHHHH i hate when life is all messed up……