Re: Models, heroes and hope - Suzanna

[Guest guest]

When my skin color was best described by comparing it to some brand of

mustard and I was awaiting a call to get a transplant, Grant Bingeman

was my hero/model. He had a transplant at Baylor on 1-2-96 due to PSC

and documented the experience in detail

(http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DrBingo/LIVER.htm). It gave

me hope and assurance that it is indeed possible to make it through

what is at best a very trying experience. We all need exemplars. I am

glad my very brief history could give you some hope for the future,

because there are many possibilities for you and all of us here and

also many stories more encouraging than mine.

Tim R, ltx 4/4/98, 6/19/07 & 7/7/07

> Tim, I really appreciate you posting [your history]. I was just

diagnosed this

> past fall and have been in a funk since. Mild depression, perhaps. I

> have been assuming that I'd be dead before my children learn to drive.

> ... Your post gives me hope that I can live to see my kids grow up.

> I really need to hang on to that hope. Thank you!

>

> Suzanna