Patient Stories

I was diagnosed a couple weeks before my birthday with Stage 4 liver disease. I was more specifically told that I had Autoimmune Hepatitis and that I desperately need a new liver.

I was diagnosed with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) when I was 23 years old, a year into my marriage and living far from home for the first time.

I was diagnosed with Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) in April 2016. Previous to the diagnosis, I experienced horrible fatigue that continued for 7 years before we figured out the cause.

I was diagnosed with Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency and became very ill very fast. I was only sick for 5 months before I was at a 40 MELD and earnestly dying.

At two months old, our son Will was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia, a condition where the bile ducts do not function properly and bile backs up into the liver resulting in liver failure.

I was officially with diagnosed Autoimmune Hepatitis – Primary Biliary Cholangitis Overlap Syndrome in 2011.

At age three, I was diagnosed with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis/Autoimmune Hepatitis overlap as well as Crohn’s disease.

When they ran his blood panel, the immediate results showed that his ammonia level was over 1,000. Ammonia is processed in the liver.

I was diagnosed with Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Liver Cancer). This type of cancer usually affects people that have Hepatitis C or Cirrhosis from alcoholism, none of which I have.

When my son, Sawyer, was just eight days old he was diagnosed with a rare liver disease called Biliary Atresia and underwent his first surgery.

I was diagnosed with End-Stage Liver Disease caused from Hepatic Encephalopathy. That began a journey during which I was to learn first hand of the benefits of ALF.

Fifteen years ago I was diagnosed with a very rare chronic auto-immune disease called, Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC).