Continuing this week’s theme of organ donation, I asked my husband to write about what it was like being a transplant recipient…he often gets asked if it feels weird or strange…this is his answer. Warning…there is a picture of his old liver ahead… I don’t have any trouble with the concept of having someone else’s […]
Being on a waiting list for an organ donor can be somewhat surreal…some patients are only on the list for a day or two, some for a few months, others for years. And it is even more surreal when you are waiting for a cadaver organ (ie from someone who has died). I can’t begin […]
As regular readers will know, my husband had a liver transplant just over three years ago due to having an autoimmune disease that affected his liver (PSC). He was on the waiting list for 14 months, and was only weeks away from dying when the call came…a liver had been found. This call caused a […]
DonateLife Week 2015 is the national awareness week to promote organ and tissue donation in Australia and today, we braved the cold weather to attend the launch, held at City Square, Melbourne. The launch featured an amazing project, put together by a very talented photographer, Pollyannar Gibson. She has created a 41-metre photo art instillation […]
Three years ago, my husband had just passed the five week post liver transplant mark and was well onto the road to recovery. Fast forward to today, and he has completed another goal on his list. He participated in the Run Melbourne 10km run, and despite being somewhat nervous, he did it easily…looked like he […]
Last night, I got hit by a real doozy of a headache…a throbbing, eye watering migraine. I haven’t had one like this for months, so it is a little disappointing that one has snuck in under my guard…and medication. I took my stronger meds, got my lavender essential oil out, and got some sleep, but […]
Today, we were up and about very early, heading into the hospital for my husband’s six monthly checkup. It was a little weird going in there today, as exactly three years ago, he had just had his liver transplant. In fact, this day three years ago, he looked like this…this was taken just after he […]
On this day three years ago, my husband and I had the most stressful, emotional, so happy yet so sad kind of day. It was on this day, that we got the call to say that there was a suitable donor liver available, and to come into the hospital. It was on this day that […]