Reading Changed My Life - Townsend Press

Reading Changed My Life! Three True Storieshome from the hospital, she began to notice somefrightening symptoms. Her legs and belly swelledup. She felt sick all the time. When she called thedoctor, she was told that the symptoms were justside effects of the pain medication she was taking.But several days later, after Alfonso had left forwork and the children were in school, Mariabecame very sick. To her terror, she began vomitingblood. She called Alfonso, who rushed her to thelocal emergency room. There she heard a doctor sayhe would have to put her to sleep and put a tubedown her throat to find the source of the blood.That was Tuesday morning. She didn’t rememberanything else until Friday.“Another doctor came into my room. He wasvery gentle,” she says. “He sat down and told methat I had a disease called cirrhosis, and that it haddestroyed my liver. I said, ‘Can you fix it?’ He saidno, that my only hope would be a liver transplant.”The doctor explained that the cirrhosis was the28