Hepatitis C Support Group
Hepatitis C is a blood-borne viral disease which can cause liver inflammation, fibrosis, cirrhosis and liver cancer. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is spread by blood-to-blood contact with an infected person's blood. Many people with HCV infection have no symptoms and are unaware of the need to seek treatment. Hepatitis C infects an estimated 150-200 million people worldwide.
I would love to hear the opinion of all of you here in the hepatitis c community, about if this option for a liver transplant is doable.
For example; A person is told that he or she will need a liver transplant within 5 years.
Can family members of this person, go ahead and write in there last Will and Testament, that they are leaving their liver to this particular person in their family?
Any idea if this is doable, please give us your opinion on this very logical question. Thank you!
Mckenzie
one day at the time
For example; A person is told that he or she will need a liver transplant within 5 years.
Can family members of this person, go ahead and write in there last Will and Testament, that they are leaving their liver to this particular person in their family?
Any idea if this is doable, please give us your opinion on this very logical question. Thank you!
Mckenzie
one day at the time
I am currently working with someone who will need a new liver within a few years and it dawned on me, ok fine a transplant list is cool if you never drank in order to get where you are today, and if you have children and young enough, there are so many things that has to fit their criteria, that it's almost impossible to get on the list.
But what if and this is what I thought of, what if family and friends, of this person would give their liver to this specific person could it work????
See early last year, I lost 2 cousins and a friend of the family, 3 deaths within 3 months, so imagine if a person in our family would have had this set up already. Wow
The chance of getting a new liver would increased dramatically.
Don't you think????