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Area woman gives her mother the gift of life By Jean ShanleyBoth mother and daughter are doing very well now. Beth Ann’s liver has rejuvenated itself, doctors have told her, and today she is doing fine.
Debbie still takes anti-rejection medication. The healing process takes a long time, Debbie said, but she’s grateful for her new lease on life and especially to the physicians and staff at Montefoire. Along with the liver, Debbie says she has developed some of Beth Ann’s habits, and Beth Ann agrees: “She acts like me!” Among the changes are eating foods that Beth Ann enjoys, such as brussell sprouts, that Debbie now likes for the first time in her life. Debbie said she is more active now than she has been for quite some time thanks to more energy because of her healthier liver. “The liver is a filter and since it was failing, there was no filtration,” she said. Beth Ann is back to her normal, active lifestyle. She and her daughter are taking classes to become EMTs, and Beth Ann volunteers for the fire department. Although she has no more plans to donate organs while she is alive, Beth Ann has always been listed as an organ donor because she believes so strongly about what that effort can mean to others. And her mother is living proof of how an organ donation can change someone’s life. 
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