Newsweek Story on Woman with PSC

[Guest guest]

Over the years, I've become inured to hospitals,

needles, ambulance rides and promises of doom and gloom. Twenty

years ago, when I was 15, I was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis. At 22, I underwent a liver transplant. By

24 I had developed ulcerative colitis and two years later I had my large

intestine removed. These two early diseases then begat

a third: primary sclerosing cholangitis. PSC, a liver disease, prompted a second liver transplant

when I was 28.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/170359

Barb in Texas - Together in the Fight - Whatever it

Takes!

Son Ken (34) UC 91 PSC 99, LTX 6/21 & 6/30 2007

@ Baylor/Dallas

[Guest guest]

WOW, what a woman!! This is very inspiring, thanks for sharing Barb!

>

> Over the years, I've become inured to hospitals, needles, ambulance

> rides and promises of doom and gloom. Twenty years ago, when I was 15, I

> was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis. At 22, I underwent a liver

> transplant. By 24 I had developed ulcerative colitis and two years later

> I had my large intestine removed. These two early diseases then begat a

> third: primary sclerosing cholangitis. PSC, a liver disease, prompted a

> second liver transplant when I was 28.

>

> http://www.newsweek.com/id/170359

>

> Barb in Texas - Together in the Fight - Whatever it Takes!

> Son Ken (34) UC 91 PSC 99, LTX 6/21 & 6/30 2007 @ Baylor/Dallas

>

[Guest guest]

WOW, what a woman!! This is very inspiring, thanks for sharing Barb!

>

> Over the years, I've become inured to hospitals, needles, ambulance

> rides and promises of doom and gloom. Twenty years ago, when I was 15, I

> was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis. At 22, I underwent a liver

> transplant. By 24 I had developed ulcerative colitis and two years later

> I had my large intestine removed. These two early diseases then begat a

> third: primary sclerosing cholangitis. PSC, a liver disease, prompted a

> second liver transplant when I was 28.

>

> http://www.newsweek.com/id/170359

>

> Barb in Texas - Together in the Fight - Whatever it Takes!

> Son Ken (34) UC 91 PSC 99, LTX 6/21 & 6/30 2007 @ Baylor/Dallas

>

[Guest guest]

WOW, what a woman!! This is very inspiring, thanks for sharing Barb!

>

> Over the years, I've become inured to hospitals, needles, ambulance

> rides and promises of doom and gloom. Twenty years ago, when I was 15, I

> was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis. At 22, I underwent a liver

> transplant. By 24 I had developed ulcerative colitis and two years later

> I had my large intestine removed. These two early diseases then begat a

> third: primary sclerosing cholangitis. PSC, a liver disease, prompted a

> second liver transplant when I was 28.

>

> http://www.newsweek.com/id/170359

>

> Barb in Texas - Together in the Fight - Whatever it Takes!

> Son Ken (34) UC 91 PSC 99, LTX 6/21 & 6/30 2007 @ Baylor/Dallas

>

[Guest guest]

Is Kim Lute a member of this support group? Great story and encouraging.

Ian (52) PSC 89

Over the years, I've become inured to hospitals, needles, ambulance rides and promises of doom and gloom. Twenty years ago, when I was 15, I was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis. At 22, I underwent a liver transplant. By 24 I had developed ulcerative colitis and two years later I had my large intestine removed. These two early diseases then begat a third: primary sclerosing cholangitis. PSC, a liver disease, prompted a second liver transplant when I was 28.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/170359

Barb in Texas - Together in the Fight - Whatever it Takes!

Son Ken (34) UC 91 PSC 99, LTX 6/21 & 6/30 2007 @ Baylor/Dallas

-- Ian Cribb P.Eng.

[Guest guest]

Is Kim Lute a member of this support group? Great story and encouraging.

Ian (52) PSC 89

Over the years, I've become inured to hospitals, needles, ambulance rides and promises of doom and gloom. Twenty years ago, when I was 15, I was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis. At 22, I underwent a liver transplant. By 24 I had developed ulcerative colitis and two years later I had my large intestine removed. These two early diseases then begat a third: primary sclerosing cholangitis. PSC, a liver disease, prompted a second liver transplant when I was 28.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/170359

Barb in Texas - Together in the Fight - Whatever it Takes!

Son Ken (34) UC 91 PSC 99, LTX 6/21 & 6/30 2007 @ Baylor/Dallas

-- Ian Cribb P.Eng.

[Guest guest]

> http://www.newsweek.com/id/170359

I like the closing statement of " The Picture of Health " - I'm not even

sure how best to redefine the concept of what is and isn't healthy,

but I hope any such definition will underscore that the presence of

illness isn't nearly as important as one's ability to overcome it.

We are all here to overcome PSC - whatever it takes.

Tim R

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> http://www.newsweek.com/id/170359

I like the closing statement of " The Picture of Health " - I'm not even

sure how best to redefine the concept of what is and isn't healthy,

but I hope any such definition will underscore that the presence of

illness isn't nearly as important as one's ability to overcome it.

We are all here to overcome PSC - whatever it takes.

Tim R