Karen Hoyt

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7 tips to find the best sunglasses
Your Personal Life
Karen Hoyt

7 Tips to Find the Best Sunglasses

These 7 tips to find the best sunglasses can help you in your search to protect your eyes. As with liver health and skin care, eye health is important. People often overlook eye protection. Yet, it’s one of the most

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Liver Transplant
Karen Hoyt

Amazon Smile Program Trio Oklahoma

On the anniversary of my transplant, I wanted to tell you about a fundraiser that doesn’t cost YOU a dime. It is a great way to support the Amazon Smile Program Trio Oklahoma for the Transplant Recipients of Oklahoma. This

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Burnout Recovery: 6 Ways to Help You Rest, Reset and Rise

Burnout is characterized by people with low engagement in things they usually enjoy. It also manifests physically through fatigue and tiredness. However, if it remains unchecked, these burnout symptoms can lead to illnesses like liver disease. Because of the instability

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Beating the Winter Blues

It’s the winter season for a lot of us around the world, and while merry holidays are on the horizon, you might not be so merry yourself. The winter blues are a real problem, and you should not think about

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Patients Getting Involved in The Liver Meeting

Many of our fellow patients get involved in The Liver Meeting each year. In 2011, right after my liver totally failed. Someone in a forum mentioned that the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) meeting was being

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Coming Off of Disability SSDI

Almost 6 years ago, my hepatologist found the tumor on my liver. Sure enough, it was malignant and it tore through my life like a tornado. Nothing prepares you for the “Cancer” word. I was placed on total and permanent

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5 Tips When You’re Scared with Liver Disease

Feeling safe while living with cirrhosis is not always easy. Eleven years ago this May, an ambulance ride to ER saved my life. A massive varices bleed had come on suddenly. It took 7 units total, of plasma and whole

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Ask the Expert: Liver Disease and COVID-19

Fact vs Fiction: What patients with Chronic Liver Disease want to know about COVID-19 Live Webinar is coming up. April 22 at 6 PM EST. This Free Q & A is designed with the patient in mind. I’m like you,

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Benefits of Tai Chi and Yoga Healing after COVID

My personal list of benefits of Tai Chi and Yoga Healing after COVID actually began years ago. I’ve done stretches before exercise class since my early Jane Fonda workout days. While teaching aerobics during the 80’s and 90’s, those before

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From Hep C to Cook Smarts Meal Planner

Guest post by Jess Dang: Now you might be wondering, how exactly does one go from Hep C to Cook Smarts Meal Planner? It’s definitely not the career I was expecting, but I somehow ended up with my dream job.

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Fall is a Time for Beginnings

Many think of autumn as the ending of summer. I think fall is a time for beginnings. We all enjoy the crisp cool air and deep blue sky; the sun signaling the days to become shorter. And who doesn’t love

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Coffee Drinking Helps NAFLD Liver Disease

At The Liver Meeting, Jennifer Lai MD always restates that drinking coffee is the best thing you can do for your liver. Read the latest research from a new study I found. Non-Alcoholic-Fatty-Liver-Disease, or any other type of liver problems.

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From Cirrhosis to Marathon in 2 Years

  If you would have told me that I would be going from cirrhosis to Marathon in 2 years, I would have laughed. In 2013 I was 29 and diagnosed with fatty liver disease due to heavy alcohol use, diet

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Alcoholism liver disease cirrhosis
Karen Hoyt

29 Year Old with Fatty Liver

I needed to get my crap together and quit drinking. My doctor warned me that no more drinking during the week. I had constant pain in my side and felt like I was always hungover. My eyes turned yellow and I was throwing up blood.

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