Nefeterius Akeli McPherson holds a picture of her 12-year-old donor, Taitlyn Shae Hughes, on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013, at her mother's home in Killeen. In November 2011, McPherson received Taitlyn's liver in a successful transplant. Jaime Villanueva | Herald
Killeen born and raised, Nefeterius Akeli McPherson, 39, was the recipient of a life-saving liver transplant in 2011. It put her life on a new path to promote organ donations, a task she will continue at the Rose Bowl parade on Jan. 1.
McPherson’s troubles began in 2004. Over the course of seven years, she was in and out of the hospital, diagnosed with a rare bile duct and liver disease, and dealing with regular procedures in hope of staving off an inevitable liver transplant.
“I felt like it was a sleeping giant,” she said of her dormant disease.
Still, she continued her studies at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. “Law school kept my mind off the scary stuff,” McPherson said. “The whole school rallied around me.”
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