When I was in the hospital waiting at the top of the liver transplant list, no one thought it would take three weeks to find an acceptable donor. One surgeon had worked in Florida and told us that in that state, I would have been almost guaranteed a transplant the same day. I found out first …
MRCP
The following .gif is comprised of many of the images I received when I requested my medical files from the pre-transplant tests and my post-transplant hospital stay. These images are of my abdominal region during my pre-transplant MRCP, or magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography on April 7th. The procedure requires injection of a dye into the vein, and then the MRI picks …
Support Organ Donation From the Comfort of Your Sofa!
Our friend Jim Dowd is racing for a great cause this August: The Chris Klug Foundation. Here's a link to his fundraising page and keep reading for all the details! Jim's CrowdRise Fundraising Page: Leadville Somewhere in the neighborhood of 14 years ago, I met our good friends Jim and Sandi. Our mutual friends, Bruce and …
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Livernalia: The Sequel
Apparently when you write a comprehensive post about mean waiting times for patients with a virtual MELD score of 40, you get to have a new liver. At 5:00 am Derek was wheeled into surgery by his surgeon, 12 hours after we were given an inkling that a viable liver was in play. We were …
T-Minus 1
Tomorrow is a big day. You can follow along with this website to get information on both our statuses, or doesderekhaveanewliver.com will give you the one word answer. Thank you everyone for the kind words, encouragement, and thoughts so far. Tomorrow, take some time out of your day to enjoy the sun and fantastic temperature for …
The Derek Janiak Hepatobiliary Forum 