Over the past month, we have done quite a few speaking gigs…sharing my husband’s transplant story and talking about the importance of organ donation. One of my favourite parts is the question time…you just never know what questions the audience will come up with! So today, I thought I would share five questions/answers, just in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For many people, getting a year older is not a reason for celebration, but in our house, it is another wonderful milestone passed. Today is my husband’s birthday…on this day three years ago, he was going downhill fast, and his doctors and I were getting very worried. Little did I know that just two weeks […]