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“I had a rare lung disease called P.P.H. I was on the waiting list for 21 months. I had my transplant at University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington. I was out in an apartment within 17 days. I have done really well. I am a lung recipient for over 18 years.” – Linda Cox Sadly,
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My daughter, Jessica, was born with Biliary Atresia, a liver disease that affects 1 in 20,000 births. Girls are affected slightly more often than boys, and no ethnic group appears to be more affected than any other. Biliary Atresia is not known to be hereditary. Jessica had a Kasai procedure at just under 7 weeks
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DeWayne Rapier was a Hancock County Graduate. He had two children, Josh & Leah. He died at age 20, but saved & healed lives through the gift of donation. He was a hero.
I was diagnosed with Chronic liver failure in 1998. I was back and forth to the doctors and transplant center through 2010. I acquired cirrhosis’ of the liver by getting Hepatitis C through a blood transfusion in the early 1980’s. This was before they ever knew about this disease. They knew about Hepatitis A and
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(PHOTO BY BETHANY BILLICK) Eleanor Westenhofer, happy and healthy after a life-saving heart transplant As baby Eleanor Westenhofer waited for a heart transplant, her parents Damon and Lindsey took turns spending the night with her at Kosair Children’s Hospital. It was Lindsey’s night when that important call came. The cardiovascular nurse-practitioner on the phone asked
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**UPDATE** Anna received her transplant in May 2012. She is DOING GREAT! Imagine laying in bed at night, trying to scratch an itch that you can’t reach. That is what Anna Parish deals with. It is part of a liver illness that this charming little girl has lived with for all of her 11
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Carissa was the second of our 4 beautiful daughter, she was smart, strong and giving. Never doing enough to help others. Carissa and her two children were killed in a car accident. It was our first snow fall of the season and only in our area not anywhere
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I was diagnosed with liver disease in 1984 after a routine physical. My internist referred me to a U of L gastroenterologist who would oversee my progress for the next twenty years. I was told from the beginning that I would need a liver transplant, but that the disease was slow-acting. Unfortunately, there was very
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My husband, Mike Saylor and Tim Clark first meet at Trinity High School freshman football practice in 1979. Years later, we never imagined how our lives would intersect. In the beginning of 2009, my husband was totally healthy. Suddenly, in February, he was diagnosed in end stage renal failure. They called it IgA Nephropathy, a
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BLESSINGS X 2 The turn of the century was also a turning point in my life. My mother had developed sclerosis of the liver, the result of Hepatitis C she contracted when she had a blood transfusion in the 70s. Doctors at University of Ohio, Cincinnati were placing her on the donor list, but also
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