Doctor. Please find my missing jigsaw piece

Since I went to the GP in May I've had enough blood samples sent to labs to do 76 tests. An x-ray, two CT scans and a MRI scan. That's an 80 piece jigsaw.

Hepatitis A doesn't match the picture on the box. It's not a chronic condition and doesn't cause liver damage. Neither does E.

We have all the Hep B pieces to complete an old jigsaw, but no shiny brand new bits for those suspicious areas in the liver.

There are enough pieces to know that Hep C and D have been matched and tested and they came back negative for this jigsaw as well.

That leaves Autoimmune. I've got all the edge pieces, the corners and pretty much all the rest. I've even got a special piece, a piece I'm pretty sure is a positive autoantibody for autoimmune. But I need a hepatologist to check if it really fits. And I need Dr C to find that piece hiding in the biopsy material. Hurry up Dr and find it for me. Just in case the doctor with the missing piece doesn't spot the space for it, I've asked a new doctor, a hepatologist, to try and make the jigsaw fit too.

Sadly it looks as though, what with decorating their trees and last minute present shopping (all their Amazon orders are stuck in a snowbound warehouse somewhere) they haven't got time to finish the jigsaw before Christmas.

Raising a glass to GP coz who spotted back in November some signs of autoimmune (and she hasn't even seen me, the liver or the jigsaw).

And raising a glass to the British Liver Trust hepatologist who set me off on this detective trail by recognising from the pathology report that something is going on and it isn't the inactive Hep B.

Oh, and the raised glass is orange juice.

Cheers all!!