Organ Transplants Support Group

I don't know how or why you're on this page butdepression is a terrible thing.Need someone to talk too? I have an open mind and a caring heart.If I can help drop me a line anytime. Greg G

After reading your background, I see you received a transplant. Please call your doctor now! It may be due to meds you are taking and he can change them. For cost? sometimes the phamacutical companies will help with the cost - especially if you are on their meds! YOur transplant doctor would know. I can't imaging they would leave you out there with no way to turn. Please don't give up -
Please keep talking. I don't know how old your daughter is but right now you need to get yourself in a good place. Then you can get her in one.
Hugs
Donna

This too shall pass!!! I received a liver transplant on October 8th, 1997 and have been through many, many rough spots so to speak since, but through the grace of God, I have managed to survive and get through all of it as I know I will again as I'm currently going through some more annoying things in my life as I'd like to call them...

I too was teaching @ a State College around this time last year, and ended up having to leave my job because I was assaulted by one of the students! I thought that things could be worse, yet I was out of work and unable to continue to live where I was, so I decided to move back to Pittsburgh...

I didn't know how I was going to do that because I was living far from my closest friends and all alone, but I knew that if I contacted some of my friends that one of them would come to my aid and much to my surprise most of them did!!!

They came and helped me move back to Pittsburgh, and I thought that I would be okay just as long as I could find a job here and get back on my feet so that my life wouldn't change for the worse...

Well, that only happens in the movies because soon after, I was still jobless and my health started to deteriorate once again for the ninth time since my transplant!!!

I had been on combination therapy for Hep C eight times before and cleared 8 times before also, but as this genotype would prove again to be as resilient as it had been previously, so it came back again to replicate enough to start attacking my transplanted liver again!!!

So, I'm on the combination treatment again, out of a job without any prospect of going back to work in the near future, but have been able to receive Medicare again without any waiting thanks to my Doctor and I'm hopeful that I'll be able to beat back down this friggin virus once again before it can do any significant damage to my transplanted liver just as I have been previously successful in doing so many times before!!!

I'm also in dire financial straits as well which is why I'm going to file for bankruptcy because I too cannot pay my creditors with what I receive from Social Security, and this is something you should consider as well and it will help you not to get so stressed out over your financial situation for the time being and hopefully help you fell just bit less depressed about your current situation...

What I have learned form all of my own trials and tribulations is that when I decide to ask for help in coping with whatever situation I found myself in, I would usually find some way of improving the situation one way or another.

And even if the improvement wasn't immediate, or I had to put myself in a more vulnerable situation for the time being, I always managed to come out of any situation in better shape each time as long as I didn't try to fix everything by myself and all alone which would usually lead to me panicking and becoming even more depressed...

So don't be afraid to ask for help from either some of your friends who just may surprise how willing they are to help even if your own family doesn't express the same type of enthusiasm to do so also! Some times your family will disappoint you in many different ways, but they can also rebound and see the error in their ways also as mine have for me more than once! Just don't expect them to be there for you, and you'll have one less thing to depress you as ironic as it may sound!!! Really!!!

I would also get in touch with your transplant team for blood work to eliminate the possibility of any underlying illness, and set up an appointment with the psychiatric specialists which are familiar with transplant related issues such as yours, and also talk to the transplant social workers also as they can work with you to figure out some sort of contingency plan and help you not to worry so much about these very real and stressful issues which can effect your overall health...

By reaching out for help and finding out that you're not alone after all, you will see that "This too shall pass!" I can say this to you with confidence even as I too am on the same road as you are once again because I know that I'm not alone in this journey!

Que Dios te Bendigas Siempre! Translation: May God Bless you Always!

Respectfully,
Henry