Photo: Marcus, 25, is from Lincoln and is training to be a surgeon. He says:
STRUCK BY a rare liver disease, Marcus Mehta was given just days to live. But a transplant saved his life – and changed it, too
“The words froze me. The consultant was saying that I had three weeks to live unless a liver donor was found.
I’d been doing my finals at university when I began to feel ill. I was reluctant to bother a doctor but my father – who is a GP himself – insisted. I was given steroids, which seemed to sort me out, and after the exams I went on a road trip with my friends.
I got through that, but soon afterwards my health began to deteriorate badly. I got jaundice and a blood test recorded enzyme levels in my liver in the thousands when they should have been around 40.
After six months, I got my diagnosis: cryptogenic hepatitis, an aggressive liver-wasting disease. Cryptogenic means there is no known cause. There was no reason why I got this disease – I was just unlucky – but my liver function had dropped to one per cent and only a transplant would save me.
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