DORIEN'S NEW LIVER

In this booklet you, together with Dorien, will get to know exactly what happens when your liver is so  sick that you have to have a new one.  You then have  to undergo a big operation.  But before that occurs, a lot of things will happen.  And after that too.

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This book is a preparatory book for children who need  to undergo a liver transplant.  It has been translated from  my original Dutch book which was published in 1996 by Beatrix Kinderkliniek,  AZG , Groningen, The Netherlands.

This book is not autobiographic. Dorien, the fictitious patient, lives in Holland. In this book we accompany her on her long way from pain to transplantation.

• all nursing staff  at the "Beatrix Kinderkliniek" and at the intensive care units who have cared for me
• the team of liver-transplant specialists of the A.Z.G. (Academisch Ziekenhuis in Groningen)
• all doctors who did their best to get me back on the track
• Sippy ten Brink who had the idea for this book and whose support and inspiration helped me along
• all good friends in Graz (Austria) who helped with the German translation
• all good friends in Tasmania (Australia) and in Holland who helped with the English translation.

Enjoy your reading!
 
  last update: 1998-01-24