During my stay in the hospital, my wife had found another couple in Texas going through a strikingly similar situation that we were. He had a liver transplant due to PSC, a colectomy, and was waiting for a second liver transplant due to the reoccurrence of PSC. His name is Geoff and his wife Erin is blogging about their experience as well. She has recently started a Donate Life initiative in which she is trying to get 500 people to register as Organ Donors. She can do a much better job explaining it then I could. To find out more and how to register, check out her blog here.
The numbers are staggering. As of right now, there are over 100,000 people on a transplant waiting list in the United States. On average, 18 of those people will die each day. It doesn't have to be that way.
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