My mother had a liver transplant and died two years later. I think those two years were worse than the years she suffered with liver disease.
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People often forget that organ transplants are not "miracle cures". With a transplant, you're trading a short-term terminal condition for a manageable terminal condition. My younger Brother received a liver transplant the day after his 19th birthday, for end-stage liver failure secondary to Wilson's disease. He died on 2 February 2009 at age of 38. Cause of death was a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. His transplant effectively doubled his life, that's getting maximum bang for your buck.
Please sign your donor cards, and if you do so, please discuss your intentions with your Family.
(BTW: my Brother, David, was a quite serious Mac-head. It was he that recruited me into Mac Army...)
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> The liver would have taken him out, if not for the transplant... Then came cancer right?
No.
He had neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer diagnosed.
He then put off surgery for several months apparently in the hope that holistic healing methods would cure him. They didn't.
He had radical surgery (Google "Whipple procedure").
This may (or may not) have cured his cancer.
Later, he had a liver transplant, the reason for which we can only speculate about.
He is therefore a cancer patient with a post-surgical digestive disorder, who is on lifelong immunosuppressive medication.
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