Dave
I think it will take more than 8 weeks for your liver to return to 'normal,' but I'm not a medical person so don;t quote me.
My GP told me last December that I was classified as a dependent by them in 2014 (news to me,) but they simply referred me to Addiction Services. Strangely enough, when I first lost my licence in April 2017, I was given a full 10 year licence in May 2019, even after the DVLA wrote to my GP.
I was banned again in July 2019 and stopped drinking then. I spoke to my GP in December last year as I knew the DVLA would write to them, and explained my current sobriety and the time period. I had an LFT done, which came back okay. In July last year I had an LFT and a
CDT test done via Medichecks and again the LFT was fine and my CDT level was 0.20% (DVLA CDT level was 0.3%)
Sorry, I don't know about the refusal dates.