50 Ways to Leave your Liver

At the start of June, while I sat in a room at the Royal Free, oblivious to the covid that was about to scupper my plans to pop downstairs for a new liver, I wrote a list of things I wanted to do after I had had the transplant.  This is an update on how I'm getting on with the list:- I want to eat pizza. The hospital catering chose not to fulfil this desire and the doctors sent me home on a no fat diet for a week (I checked and pizza does have some fat). However, I believe I achieved this goal within the first few days after the no fat diet ended. Tick.  I want to play 5-a-side. Sport has been a source of contention between me and the Drs. I am incredibly keen to get out and play all the sports. They are incredibly keen that I don't give myself a hernia. But from 6 months post op they say I can go for it, so I expect to tick this off the list in the coming weeks.  I want to watch the sunset in my new bedroom. I   realise the wording here could lead to a misunderstanding so, for

One of the best things to do on December 1st is to log out of all social media. Failure to do so can lead to hours of frustration trying to find anything of any interest among the 30 trillion identical posts in two distinct categories. Firstly, Christmas trees. Oh look, everyone got a Christmas tree! And did they put lights on it? Yup. Baubles? Uh-huh. Draped it in tinsel? How did you know?! Isn't it fun to see the way everyone decorates them slightly differently from each other? No. No it isn't.  Secondly, Spotify Wrapped. Once a year, at the start of December, Spotify decides it's vitally important to tell us what music we've been listening to the most this year. And it's obviously a hugely anticipated moment because, for some reason, none of us already know what we've been listening to. And in our excitement we rush to tell the rest of the world. And then it turns out they've also gorged all year on a feast of Ed Sheeran and Kate Bush. Hooray! While never