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“My Liver, My Life, and the Hand That Measured It”

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Sitting in the parking lot after eating half a Chipotle bowl.

Why?

Not for diet culture, not because I’m chasing a svelte body —

even though that would be nice.

The truth is simple:

my liver is shit.

Doctor’s words:

“You have shit genetics. Your liver cannot process cholesterol.”

A bunch of numbers on a sheet of paper basically said:

Change your habits or die early.

He held up my hand and said:

“See this?

This is your portion size.

Every meal.

You can eat what you want — just not as much as you want.

And you can’t cheat every day.”

Then the kicker:

“You wouldn’t even feel your death.

You’d just have a heart attack and be gone.”

No fear entered my mind.

Not because I want to die —

but because I’ve always believed we are more than this hardware, this body.

Still…

I want to enjoy this mortal existence while I’m here.

So now I’m watching portions.

Watching what I eat.

Letting medication for cholesterol enter my bloodstream every night around 6:30 p.m.

Last meal at 6 p.m.

Then a 12-hour fast so my liver can breathe a little.

I can’t work out yet — still coughing.

Not as much.

But enough to keep me on pause.

So here I am.

Half a Chipotle bowl.

A new chapter.

Cough medicine sedating my eyes a bit as I finish typing this.



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