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March 21, 2017

Liver Transplant Patient Helps Set New Nighttime Skydiving Record

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  A funny thing happened the other day as we were flipping through the January 2017 issue of Parachutist, the official magazine of the U.S. Parachute Association. (We’re behind in our reading but trying to pick up velocity.) A familiar name and face greeted us: Steve Woodford, a liver transplant patient featured in a Sharing […]

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Tags: Bile duct cancer, Breast Cancer, Hepatitis, liver transplant


July 12, 2016

Transplant Patient Using Second Chance to Help Others

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Brian McIntyre doesn’t shy away from talking about the situation he’s in and how he got here. After living “a hard life of liquor and drugs for many years,” as chronicled in the Ottawa (Illinois) Times, he tells us he showed up at Mayo Clinic’s Rochester campus one day in 2009 out of desperation. “I […]

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Tags: Dr. Charles Rosen, Dr. Kymberly Watt, Hepatitis, liver transplant


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