Cork woman talks about waking up from coma and being told she had an emergency liver transplant

A Macroom woman who woke up from a coma without knowing she had received a liver transplant says she is truly grateful that organ donation saved her life.

Noreen Murphy shared her story at the launch of Organ Donor Awareness Week 2024, organized by the Irish Kidney Association (IKA) in partnership with the HSE's Organ Donation and Transplant Ireland.

“Prior to the transplant, Vital's health was almost uniformly good and he had no known diagnosis until he woke up from his coma and heard the words, 'Nolene, welcome home.'” You are an intensive care worker at St. Vincent's Hospital. “He's in the treatment room, he's in a coma, he's undergoing an emergency liver transplant, and everything is going to be OK,” Murphy said.

“When my family arrived at the hospital gray with worry and exhaustion, they filled in the blanks for me.

“The medical team at Tallaght Hospital determined there was a problem with my liver and sent me three nights later to St Vincent's Hospital, where doctors started giving me steroids to calm my immune system. The decision to attack my liver.

“When this treatment didn't work, I was put into an induced coma and from here I was put on the super-urgent transplant list as time was running out.

“Thankfully, I was lucky enough to receive my organ from the UK in the first week of March 2019, and I woke up about a week after the transplant and was back to my new normal,” Murphy said. Ta.

She said she is forever grateful to the individuals and their families who donated.

“We are so grateful to organ donation and to the selfless families in the UK who, faced with the ultimate tragedy, choose to donate their organs and save other families they don’t even know from going through the same heartbreaking experience.” she stated. Murphy said.

People who want to share their wishes with loved ones and support organ donation can carry an organ donor card, allow code 115 to be included on their driver's license, or use the “Digital Organ Donation” It is a good idea to have someone remind you of your decision. Smartphone “card” app.