She is now planning her first family holiday in years to celebrate her recovery
A Northampton mum who was so unwell she forgot who her family were and her children “said their goodbyes” as her liver was being “eaten away” due to an auto-immune disease is now back at work.The mum-of-two underwent two failed liver transplants before having a third op in March 2021 which has been a success. Now, Gemma is back at work and is planning her first family holiday in years to celebrate her recovery.
She said: “It started off as manageable, I’d struggle with tiredness and jaundice, and things would improve with each pregnancy but after having my second son, my health went totally off the scale.” Gemma said: “My husband got a call at about three o’clock in the morning saying that I had to have an emergency procedure and that he and the children should come and see me in case I don’t pull through, which was an incredibly difficult thing for them to go through.”
In 2016, Gemma had her first liver transplant which, at first, seemed to cure her of her symptoms. She said: “I was back to normal, going back to work, it was amazing but after six months it just all started to go wrong again.Gemma also began to struggle with fatigue, and it became clear that her transplant was failing. Put back on the waiting list, Gemma had her second procedure in November 2019.
Gemma was told she would need to go into hospital to wait for an organ to become available and, as it was during the 2020 lockdown, she would not be able to leave without risking losing her spot on the transplant list.
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