Patient Stories

I was experiencing complications and attending Riley Hospital for Children, to soon discover after a year of tests that I was diagnosed with Wilson’s disease.

I entered the US Military at the age of 18 and caught Hepatitis C while serving as a medic.

After a colonoscopy and a liver biopsy, it was determined that I had Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis(PSC) and Ulcerative Colitis.

She was diagnosed with acute autoimmune hepatitis. She never let the disease stop her from living her life and for 18 years she has learned to live with and manage the disease.

I have been living with AIH and PBS for almost 20 years. I was diagnosed after being in extreme pain and no energy.

I never knew the importance of keeping your liver happy and making sure that proper diet was important until I had this rare liver disorder called Budd Chiari.

After a successful and long career in the U.S. Army and U.S. Government Department of Defense, Terry L. Martin, Sr. was diagnosed with Sarcoidosis (an inflammatory disease) in his lungs and liver.

Waking up in the ICU after 2.5 days in a medically induced coma initiated by massive internal bleeding was a shocking almost out-of- body type of experience.