Monday, October 24, 2005
Essays by a Liver Transplant Patient - Seattle Times
Jack Slater, a Seattle high-school teacher and former actor, received a liver transplant Sept. 21, 2004, at University of Washington Medical Center. Or, as Slater would say, he was "gifted" with a liver. He and his wife, Deborah Swets, know nothing of the donor. They only know that without a transplant, Slater, 58, would have died. He was diagnosed in 1997 with end-stage liver disease, the result of hepatitis C, and had spent almost two years on the transplant waiting list. Slater wrote of his battle with illness in "Life on the Waiting List," a series of intimate and often irreverent essays for The Seattle Times.
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Jack Slater, a Seattle high-school teacher and former actor, received a liver transplant Sept. 21, 2004, at University of Washington Medical Center. Or, as Slater would say, he was "gifted" with a liver. He and his wife, Deborah Swets, know nothing of the donor. They only know that without a transplant, Slater, 58, would have died. He was diagnosed in 1997 with end-stage liver disease, the result of hepatitis C, and had spent almost two years on the transplant waiting list. Slater wrote of his battle with illness in "Life on the Waiting List," a series of intimate and often irreverent essays for The Seattle Times.
Latest installment
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