Life Goes On: Journey of a Liver Transplant Recipient

It is a reality that someone in Canada dies every three days waiting for an organ transplant; for some patients they are lying in their hospital beds waiting to be given a second chance at life. Some are fortunate to receive that organ or gift of life yet for many they dont survive because the organ they require is either not available or doesnt get there in time.. Christine Jowett was only thirteen years old when she became jaundiced fatigued and endured bouts of right abdominal pain. Having lived with autoimmune hepatitis for twenty-six years Christines disease finally took its toll on her and she ended up in St. Marys Hospital where she works as a cardiology nurse. In order to save her life she was then sent to Toronto General Hospital to wait for a liver transplant yet her situation continued to deteriorate as her kidneys were shutting down.. Now at forty-one years old a mother and a wife it still remains a mystery as to why Christine developed chronic autoimmune hepatitis a disease that for so long through her life she was able to manage with few medications. Life Goes On is a moving story of her life which tells of her sickness facing up to the possibility of losing her family and the struggle to regain the normality of life after her operation. After the tragic death of an anonymous hero Christine is given the ultimate gift of life a healthy organ on one very special day.