Very happy for you Hector.
David
This is amazing news.
Guess our collective prayers were answered.
Glad you kept pushing. Now we can pray you get a suitable liver ASAP.
Reva
This is great news! Hoping that you get a transplant soon and can move onto the next great chapter of your life. Every day our prayers get answered.
Best, jsf52
Hector, I am so happy to hear this wonderful news. Thank God.
Advocate1955
Hi Hector, going to sleep tonight with a big smile ! Im sure I will sleep well! A huge congratulations to you!
Wow...such amazing news! You are on your way to bigger and better parts of life. Congrats H
I like that : ) What a great feeling that must be for you. Truly remarkable!
Oh what great news! Congrats, and you'll remain in my thoughts.
Em
Thank you Willy, Mike and Naya...
When I heard the news that no tumor could be found on the MRI after my last HCC treatment, I thought of this line of renewed life emerging from darkness. What a glorious moment if was.
“As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno (14th century)
Ciao!
Howie
Absolutely the greatest news !!!Congratulation Hector!!Hang on ,I wish you successful transplant soon!!Love Naya
It makes you want to believe...and I do believe!
Mike
How wonderful to see this!!!!!
Fingers crossed for you buddy....
~W
I am waiting to talk to my hepatologist about my best option for transplant between UCSF and Yale-New Haven. Only she can find out and compare the two in terms of wait time. UCSF has the longest wait list for liver transplants in the country (over 700 people waiting for a transplant).
I will know the answer at the latest by next Monday.
Ciao
H
Great news, Hector. I come here mostly for your news these days and I've been anxious and curious about the drunken tumor process you went through. Now that it's paid off I'm wondering about the availability of a liver at Yale vs. UCSF. Is it that liver supply is regional? I know you love your team there but does it mean that you go to the likely supply of liver? How does that work?
p.s. Watch out if you get to Yale you'll be dangerously close to Can Do Man and NYGirl.
Thank you each and every one of one. Having your support through this process has helped me to remain hopeful despite the odds against me. I am truly grateful and humbled by the surprise turn of events that even my doctors find unbelievable. Of course I must thank them for not giving up on me and developing options for me to try before I had no options left. I feel like the luckiest man on the face of the earth since hearing the news. I hope I will be worthy of my good fortune and hope to help other patients in the transplant community when I can again return to working. I have been given the most precious gift. Life. May I never forget the hell I have been through and all the love and support from so many who helped me find my way to a better place.
"In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer."
- Albert Careb
Howie
YAY!!!! Hooray!!! Yipppeeeee!!! Yahooo!!! So excited!!! I'm so glad for your fabulous news, it is the answer to all our prayers! Yes, now to make that transplant happen, so glad I stopped in today to hear about this. Go Howie!!!
Howie, by far the very best news I have seen on this forumn!!!!!!!
You have devoted so much of your self to help others ( including me ) that I am absolutely ecstatic to read this wonderful news!
If karma has anything to do with things ( and I believe it does) then your karma house is order!!!! I could go on and on, but I have a pretty good idea of what you have been going thru physically and mentally. Howie, I must say you my friend, are going to get this transplant and get back to living and enjoying all life has to offer!
Peace
Jerry
Congratulations on you Miracle! how happy for you!
Wonderful news, Hector, that steering has resumed on the rudderless boat, and things are on the move again.
Hector,
In following your posts these past few months I have learned a few things about you. You just never gave in to your disease and your will to live is unbreakable. I hope to next hear that you are getting the liver transplant you truly deserve.
Rebecca
i am beyond happy for you. i'm praying for you to get your liver transplant now!!! bless you. belle
Awesome, this is really good news! We do have an amazing team for us.
Tim
Things are looking better guy........ Congrats.