The 31 -year -old Dubliner SINEAD LOWNDES, one of the two Ireland, is not a gift that has been interdisciplinary organs. Two years after four times the transplant surgery, her young mother talks to her to help her to raise awareness.
“In the latter half of 2018, I was diagnosed with a rare liver condition from nowhere. My stomach swelled and I went to a doctor thinking that there was a wind. About a week later, they were me. I told me that I had a bad kiari and I needed a liver transplant, “said Sinead, 29 years old.
“It was a bad news sequence. I was married three weeks later, but my small girl, Page, was only 11 months old.”
In addition to the diagnosis of BUDD-CHIARI, which affects one million people, SINEAD was said to have a blood condition that causes blood clots and further complicates her health.
“I thought I was completely healthy,” says Sinond. “Everyone thought I was on a diet for a wedding, so I realized that I was losing weight, but there was a newborn baby. I was not sleeping. I thought it was normal.
“On the day I was diagnosed, they couldn't believe they were sitting in front of them. They expect me to be in ICU in my blood. But I felt a little hungry and except that it was a little rough. “
1 in 1 million
The doctor warns Seny that her health will worsen within a few days, but she returned home in the early 2019 and married Stuart as planned. But things began to change quickly.
“Two weeks after the wedding, I deteriorated and they found my intestines,” says Sinead. “I was at St. Vincent Hospital at the time, but they are wonderful, but there is no specialized knowledge to transplant the small intestine anywhere in Ireland, so we put me in front of me to go to Cambridge Adenvok Hospital. I had been accepted in April.
Sinned was lucky to be able to travel to the United Kingdom for surgery, but she was “devastated” because she had to move there for a year. Stuart had only a few days to pack a new house in Dublin, but Seny had to give up his work as an insurance broker. Stuart also took a break from his job with insurance, and gave up her to accompany her young family to Cambridge.
“Mum was amazing,” Senyde says. “There was no way she didn't go. Sometimes we actually had to sleep. She was on my bedside until 12:00 pm, and left until I fell asleep. I didn't think anyone was out of the way.
Sinead friends set the GOFUNDME page and raised nearly 10,000 people at costs. “Cambridge is one of the most expensive places in the UK,” says Seny. “We didn't work, so we didn't have time to rent a house. Gofundme was amazing. I was very lucky. Without it, we couldn't go. It would be.
“I had to go home”
After moving, the condition of SINEAD worsened, and in June we spent seven weeks at the hospital before administering the liver, pancreas, small intestine, and colon transplants.
“It's the biggest transplant you can get,” she says. “We have few in the world. I really recovered rocky. I needed abdominal wall transfer and the spleen was removed. I fell into pneumonia and 7 weeks of artificial respiratory organs. I knew where I was in the COM, so I had to do a trachea. I had to say it when I was finally clear.
After almost three months at the ICU, Sinead left the hospital in September. “I had to do as much as I could to go home. I learned to go back, walk, and talk again. I lived next to the hospital, but I I was still there since I left, but I was at home.
In February, the family returned to Ireland in time for the pandemic hit. She and Stuart have been working remotely since then.
“We are not going to the store. We are not going anywhere,” says Seny. “When COVID came, it was very raw. I had a ventilator eight months ago. So we didn't have a chance.”
“We were planning to put a load, such as going to Dubai, and we have just been to Disneyland after I was released,” says Sinne. “But after we supplemented the time we died as a family. I essentially missed a year of Page's childhood. I didn't meet her for six weeks at a certain stage. It was very difficult to see her from the bed, but I always say that there are 600 people on the transplant list. Only 190 people were transplanted. “
Repetition
SINEAD says that it was difficult to meet her family due to the restriction of COVID-19, but she is lucky that her time at the hospital was pandemic.
“When I was in St. Vincent, in 2019 they called my room a party room.
“I was there for a week in November last year, but it seemed to be a completely different place. In 2020, I don't even know if I would be transplanted. I always say that there are worse people.”
She couldn't go back to work, but she was sometimes “relatively healthy” in addition to bleeding.
She started running again and set up his own fundraising activities for St. Vincent Hospital to commemorate the week of the organ provision to end tomorrow.
“There are nurses and doctors who are part of my story,” says Seny. “I wanted to return to them. So I tried my first 5km this week and told people to ask me to participate and donate it. Within 24 hours, 1,000 euros. The above grew up.
Sinned also wants to praise her donors and their families. “I literally think about them every day, because if they don't, they can't see Page growing.
“I wrote a letter to the organ donor's family, but they may not read it. I know a nurse who lost my son nine years ago, and she was his I received a letter from one of the organ recipients, but I haven't been ready to read it yet, but I know how much I am grateful. I am glad that it may be. “
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