Today, we woke up extra early and headed out in the dark along a familiar route to hospital. The journey was for nothing major…just a regular checkup appointment at the Liver Transplant Unit for my husband. However, this day has very special meaning…four years ago we also got up early and made the journey to […]
Today, we got up extra early as it was clinic morning…my husband was booked in for his six monthly post liver transplant checkup. Although it was actually his seven month checkup as we both totally forgot about his appointment late last year…first time in about 8 or so years of attending clinic, pre and post, […]
According to the National Carers Week’s website, there are 2.7 million unpaid carers currently here in Australia and this week is Nationals Carers Week (11th – 17th October 2015). I was a full time carer for my husband a few years ago…this is our story… As regular readers will know, my husband had to have […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]