The morning he finally looked—really looked—at himself, the denial snapped. His stomach wasn’t just big; it was hard, swollen, alien. That single, unflinching glance pushed him into the car and toward the hospital, where the truth arrived in cold, clinical words: advanced liver damage, fluid where it shouldn’t be, time already lost. For a moment, he felt like a condemned man hearing his sentence.
But in that same moment, something stubborn and fragile surfaced: the will to stay. He let himself break down in front of strangers in scrubs. He followed every instruction, surrendered old habits, and admitted to friends and family that he was terrified. Slowly, the pressure in his abdomen eased, and his breaths came easier. What nearly killed him wasn’t just the cirrhosis; it was the months he spent pretending nothing was wrong, when everything was begging him to fight for one more chance.
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