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This website has had visitors and was updated on 15th January 2012

All about Bethany

My name is Bethany. I am eight years old and live in West Yorkshire (England) with Mummy, Daddy and my little sister Eloise.

When I was born, I had a poorly liver. (The liver is near your tummy on the inside. I made a paper liver for the photograph on the right!) It didn't hurt much but I couldn't get many of the vitamins and things out of my food. This made my skin go a bit yellow and my tummy was swollen. I was always feeling tired, and had to take fifteen different medicines and tablets every day.

Every few weeks I had to have vitamin injections in my legs. These hurt quite a bit, but I got to play in the hospital playroom and Mummy or Daddy would let me buy things in the hospital shop. The nurses always gave me stickers afterwards!

I had lots of blood tests, scans and things and had to go into hospital quite a lot - but hospitals can be fun. They have all sorts of toys that I don't have at home!

This didn't stop me having fun. I went to school every day and did dancing lessons, winning quite a few prizes in local competitions.

But when I was 5 years old, things got worse and I had to come home from school at dinner time every day to rest in bed in the afternoon. The doctors decided it was time to give me a new liver.

This operation is called a liver transplant.

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The day after I came home with my new liver!

I had to wait a few months until the hospital found a liver that was right for me. I had a big operation in January 2009 at St James' Hospital in Leeds. They made me go to sleep, then they took the old liver out and put a new one in.

Only 19 days later, I was at home, playing in the snow. Now I'm full of energy, my skin is the right colour and I can go to school all day!

I only take a few little tablets every morning and night and don't need all the injections any more.

In 2010 I took part in the British Transplant Games in Bath, near Bristol. It's a bit like the Olympic Games, except that everyone taking part has had a transplant. There were very young children right up to people over 70 years old taking part. I didn't manage to win any medals, but I got in the final of the 50 metre dash. It was great fun.

I am now in Year 4 at school.

Recently we met Michael Crawford and The Chuckle Brothers, and I have been on television and in some newspapers in articles about the Transplant Games, The Sick Children's Trust and the Organ Donor Register. If lots of people sign the register, there will be more livers, kidneys, hearts and lungs for people who are very ill and need them. I have lots of friends who have had transplants.....