Gordon Flett

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Kiitos paljon, rakastan nämä keskustelut. Ne ovat kuin henkilökohtaisia. Ne tulevat, tietysti, vanhasta kanadasta Anne Green Gablesin tarinasta, joka on oikeastaan tärkeää, kun ajattelee sitä. Sanoisin vanhemmille, että luke Anne Green Gablesa lapsille, koska Anne tulee orfanaan. Hänet saapuu ihmisiin, jotka näkevät hänet ja arvostavat hänet. Sitten hän käsittelee opetuksen, koska Marilla tarvitsee hänet, toivottavasti, kun Matthew kuuluu. Olin ymmärtänyt,

That's why that story resonates with people so much. The sense of being lost, being taken in by people who care, and then sticking around to make a difference in their lives. Everybody has the potential.

I woke up one day after having some pain, and my wife said, you don't look good.

Your skin is turning yellow.

And we phoned the hospital.

They said, come in right away.

And I had a problem with bile duct issues where they figured, though, that if they addressed whatever blockage there was, that I would get better.

Instead, I didn't get better.

I started to get, went deep yellow in terms of jaundice and eventually orange.

And I'm talking pumpkin orange at one point.

Ended up losing 40 pounds, had four different procedures where they thought they must have just missed something.

And then eventually the one doctor who I ended up on his operating table who I'd never met, he figured it out.

I call him my doctor house like the TV show.

Because he figured out there was only one variable that was left, and that was the IV that was going into me.

Somehow I had a weird interaction that actually had put me in liver failure for almost three weeks, being hooked up to IV.

And when they took me off the IV or they replaced that with something else, then I started to get better to the point I was able, after three full weeks in the hospital, being able to go home.

So on the very last day, um, I'm there at night and a nurse comes in wearing a late night with David Letterman t-shirt and she goes, you don't know me, but I know you and I know what you've been through.

And she says, your file is like three feet thick with all the tests that have been run on you.

And you had a very close call.