Liver Transplantation Story
Oct. 9th, 2007 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mysidThe Philadelphia Inquirer recently printed a three-part article about a little girl named Nadia having a liver transplant at CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia). Since my daughter, E, is on the wait-list for a new liver, and will be having her transplant done at CHOP, the article was of special interest at our house.
E, who is ten years old, devoured the article. The doctors mentioned in the article are her doctors; the operation and recovery that Nadia went through, she will have to go through. I thought she'd ask questions or want to talk after reading it, but she just folded up the newspaper and went outside to play. She seems to have gotten the whole "don't borrow trouble before it happens" attitude from my husband and me.
If you'd care to take a look, you can read the article here. Oh, and in case you're wondering, the procedure they describe in which the smaller lobe of an adult liver is given to a child at CHOP while the larger lobe is given to an adult at neightboring HUP (Hospital of the Universtiy of Pennsylvania) won't work for E. She's too big; she's almost as tall as I am. She will require either an entire liver of a child--that's the doctor's preference for her--or the larger lobe of an adult liver.
E, who is ten years old, devoured the article. The doctors mentioned in the article are her doctors; the operation and recovery that Nadia went through, she will have to go through. I thought she'd ask questions or want to talk after reading it, but she just folded up the newspaper and went outside to play. She seems to have gotten the whole "don't borrow trouble before it happens" attitude from my husband and me.
If you'd care to take a look, you can read the article here. Oh, and in case you're wondering, the procedure they describe in which the smaller lobe of an adult liver is given to a child at CHOP while the larger lobe is given to an adult at neightboring HUP (Hospital of the Universtiy of Pennsylvania) won't work for E. She's too big; she's almost as tall as I am. She will require either an entire liver of a child--that's the doctor's preference for her--or the larger lobe of an adult liver.
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Date: 2007-10-09 05:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-09 08:43 pm (UTC)And yes, I'm very proud of E.
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Date: 2007-10-09 07:42 pm (UTC)It's good to see her interested but not seeming all too worried about what is to come. And thanks for sharing the article.
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Date: 2007-10-09 08:45 pm (UTC)And yes, it's very good to see that E isn't worried.