A man has been rushed to hospital after a horror attack on a Scots street.
30.11.2022 - 10:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots man who was diagnosed with cancer after a pal noticed his eyes were turning yellow has spoken of his experiencing in receiving a liver transplant.
Scott Fryatt fell violently ill and was struck down with severe abdominal pain when he was house sitting for a friend in Glasgow back in April 2022.
Although the pain subsided after a while, the 24-year-old from Edinburgh, who had recently completed a television production degree and was working towards a PPGE in primary education at the time, felt like something still wasn't right, reports EdinburghLive.
Scott's fears were confirmed when a friend pointed out over lunch one day that his eyes had gone yellow around the sides. He contacted NHS24 and he was subsequently rushed to hospital in Glasgow where he was tested for gallbladder stones and potentially hepatitis. However medics could not get to the root of the issue.
Scott said: “They could not find anything wrong with me but my liver was failing and my blood counts were all over the place.
“There is this chemical called bilirubin that indicates how healthy your liver is, the higher the number the more severe the liver failure, and mine were through the roof. Doctors did not know what to make of it.
“They carried out a lot of tests but decided to send me to see a liver specialist at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh. I spent about four or five weeks there getting further tests done and put on 22kg in water weight which I found out was common when your liver starts to fail.
“I was so ill and getting worse as time went on. After a while they said I needed a liver transplant and began carrying out scans to make sure I could physically cope.
“Unfortunately during this process they also found out that I had lymphoma. They
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