Read about fellow PSCers who manage their PSC every day and also help to increase awareness of the disease through community activities and living full lives.
Another chapter written in Chris Klug’s second life
by Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, December 4, 2011
“Retired” probably isn’t the best word to describe Chris Klug’s current stage in life.
The three-time Olympic snowboard racer, bronze medalist and liver transplant recipient did retire from competition last winter, after 20 years on the World Cup circuit. But he’s staying busy launching a new career as a real estate broker, adjusting to life off the road as a new father, and putting more time than ever into his work promoting organ and tissue donation awareness through the Chris Klug Foundation — all while knocking out the occasional amateur backcountry competition.
“I thought it would be a harder transition,” Klug said Friday afternoon at the base of Aspen Mountain. “But I am loving it.”
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Stamford woman gives husband gift of life
By ERIK OFGANG Times Correspondent
Posted on 11/03/2011
STAMFORD -- Husband and wife Brad and Carol Shwidock always knew they were a match for each other romantically, but they recently found out their bodies are a match as well, and that may have saved Brad Shwidock's life.
On Sept. 13, Carol Shwidock donated a portion of her liver to her husband, whose liver was failing. Almost two months later, the Stamford couple is recovering smoothly from the operation. In a recent interview, Brad and Carol Shwidock, who are both in their early 50s, said the whole experience was deeply emotional and brought them closer together.
"To have that ability to save someone's life is incredible," Carol Shwidock said.
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Livers off on world journey
12/Aug/2011
By Kaitlyn Offer, Hills Gazette
CORINNE Perrett’s liver is about to set off on a world journey. Actually, the Lesmurdie resident has six livers that will roam the globe.
Dubbed Super Liver, the caped, plush toys are going to be sent to patients of a rare liver disease – primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).
Ms Perrett was diagnosed with PSC in 2006 and has since attended two conferences in the US to learn more and find others with the condition.
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A Stampede Inspiration
Updated: Wed Jul. 13 2011 12:09:39
CTV Calgary
Hundreds of volunteers at the Calgary Stampede work year round to make the ten day event a complete success and Alison Collins is no slacker, especially in the face of adversity.
Collins, a former Stampede princess, fought through more than ten years of a debilitating liver disease until her sister provided her with the opportunity to lead a normal life.
She's always lived for the Stampede and many people had no idea that the energetic young woman had primary sclerosing cholangitis.
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Rare bile duct disease is focus of conference
Rare bile duct disease is focus of conference
April 28, 2011. Patients, caregivers and experts gather for Sacramento event targeting PSC.
Emily Spannagel was a college freshman 12 years ago when she first learned that she had a rare liver disease that could lead to liver failure and eventually require a transplant. Her illness, primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), results in inflammation that progressively scars and narrows the liver’s bile ducts.
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Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis May Have Caused the Death of Beethoven
by Ulrika Broome, revised by Annika Berquist, and translated by Peter Holmgren Originally published in 2006 in Lakartidninen, vol. 103, translated 2010
In a recently published article by two American otologists it is claimed that the different physical symptoms of Beethoven could be explained by an immunopathy associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
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