“Hepatic encephalopathy is the loss of brain function that occurs when the liver is unable to remove toxins from the blood. “-U.S. National Library of Medicine
Yes, my girlfriend and I got burnt hard by this; which goes to show you need to aspire to know all the facts. At the time I was trusting and sat on my hands when it came to information gathering. Also having someone close at all times is very important when it comes to this illness.
Let me set the scene: It’s beach day and I was really looking forward to it. My toxin of choice….Ammonia. My special lady friend and I set out early to maximize the amount of radiation we can drown ourselves in on a Sunday. I started acting irrational which I vaguely remember and my girlfriend wants to take me into the hospital; which further infuriates me. At this point I’ve blackout, yet go on function on remote. I woke up -rather regained sanity on Tuesday with my hands tied to a hospital bed, a catheter, and some snake like device up inside me that deposing of waste. Eh? Panic.
Apparently I turned into a raving lunatic after I blacked out. My girlfriend called an ambulance because I’m sitting in the middle of the street in my neighborhood, making a huge scene. As soon as I’m in the ambulance they try to put tubes in my nose and I rip them out. This continues in the I.C.U. until they finally tie my hands to the bed. At this point my girlfriend tells me I was speaking mostly in fragmented words and code. Yeah code. Turns out my liver deposes of ammonia and my brain became flooded with it. Might have been nice to mention that Doc.
Ironically a few months before I was complaining about an acquaintance I had at my local rock gym; who was a sweet guy but always smelled liked cat piss. I looked it up finally and it turns out that some people who have too much protein in their diet sweat out ammonia….hence cat piss.
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