My name is Lindsay and I am 29. My whole life I was a normal kid and teenager. I graduated high school and decided I wanted to go to cosmetology school in Santa Monica, CA to become a famous hair stylist/makeup artist, but things don't always go the way you plan. When I was 19 I started getting sick on a weekly basis. I would get a really bad cold, it would go away, and a week later, it would come back. I went to a doctor and she ran some blood tests and said I had hepatitis B from eating sushi. I called my parents back in Colorado and they put me on a plane and I came home. When I got home I went to a Gastroenterologist, had more blood work taken, a liver biopsy, and got the news, I had liver disease. They didn't know what kind so they immediately sent me over to the University of Colorado Hospital. I was immediately admitted and the doctors began to run a massive amount of tests to figure out what was going on. After a ERCP that gave me pancreatitis and a surgery to … [Read more...]