Doing the rounds this week is a very interesting article, and one which I want to bring to your attention…and it is all about fatty liver disease. Many Australians are now overweight, and a lesser known complication of obesity is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. It is affecting about one in three Australians….one in three! The […]
Today, we headed back to the hospital where my husband had his transplant for a social reason…to attend the Liver Transplant Unit’s Christmas Breakup. This is one Christmas event that I really enjoy and I can’t believe that this is actually our fourth one…it seems only a short time ago we were attending our first […]
Funny how an experience can lead to new opportunities…and doing something you never thought you would…or could…do. I was never keen on speaking in front of people…I grew up watching close family members excel at public speaking. It seemed effortless and I felt there was no way I could do it too. But after my […]
Today is the inaugural DonateLife Thank You Day…a national day to acknowledge organ and tissue donors and families that agreed to donation. We know first hand just how amazing and life changing organ donation is…my husband received a donor liver approx 1240 days ago…that’s 1240 extra days that he would not have had if he […]
Today, we were honoured to be invited to speak to a group of theatre nurses who are going to be or have been part of a retrieval team for donor organs. These nurses don’t get to see the whole organ donation story even though they are part of a very important process, so the seminar […]
This morning we got up and out of the house way too early for a Sunday but it was all for a good reason…we were heading into the city to take part in the City2Sea! We paired up with another couple…the guys, both who had PSC and subsequent liver transplants, ran the 5kms…us girls were […]
Today, my husband and I returned to a hospital where we used to spend a lot of time…it is where he went to the liver clinic for years, where he had his liver transplant and to which he will remain connected as a patient of for the rest of his life. But today was a […]
Yesterday, another chapter in our lives closed…my husband played at his last brass band competition as he is going to take some time off. Brass bands have been a part of our lives forever…we actually met through being in the same band. He was…and still is…a top cornet player and conductor who had grown up […]