Wrestling the Monster: Living with Hepatic Encephalopathy, H.E.

You can’t see it coming, no way to prepare. You think the person is just cranky, or nuts, or maybe you are the one who is nuts. When HE came to our house, when Mike was going through some of his worst moments, I avoided him. When Mike was so sick, and stuck in the hospital fighting his demons within those 4 walls, I sat home at night, unable to sleep, waiting for a phone call, and watched this video; it helped me to understand how to cope. The only time I was able to relax, was when he was in the hospital, where I knew he would be taken care of, where they could help him, when things got out of control. They got out of control a lot. We stopped counting hospital admissions after 19, from Feb-Aug.
Mike came out of it, but it wasn’t like a light switched on, it took weeks, no, MONTHS. He came out of the Rabbit Hole 3 weeks before his final discharge and home, Dec.22, 2013. He was one of the  lucky ones, in so many ways.