“The other quite disturbing thing I noticed, not long after the leg swelled, was an alarming loss of night vision and it was sudden. I walked into the home bar one night and under low light I could hardly see,” he added.
Although friends and family were commenting on Mike’s physical changes, he struggled to face up to the fact that his dwindling health was due to alcohol, and he needed to give it up. But after urging him to seek medical advice, Mike finally went to his GP.
“This is liver failure, you need to be admitted to hospital straight away,” the GP told Mike. After arriving at A&E and a couple of tests later a doctor gave Mike a shocking diagnosis.
“I’ll never forget his words, ‘your liver is absolutely knackered and it can’t recover’. He told me some of my results which were way outside normal ranges. He said a cirrhosis diagnosis would be confirmed following an ultrasound but it was inevitable.
