John Bourgeois has been waiting for a liver transplant for two years, and has taken it into his own hands to find someone who's a perfect match for him.
John Bourgeois has been waiting for a liver transplant for two years, and has taken it into his own hands to find someone who's a perfect match for him.
John Bourgeois has been waiting two-and-a-half agonizing years hoping someone will be able to help him.There were extended stays in the hospital to try and figure out what was going on. “We had just come through his prostate cancer treatments so we didn’t know what was going on and it was during COVID, we couldn’t be in the hospital with him,” said his wife, Angela Pottier.
Then, Bourgeois learned his kidneys were failing because of his liver. He would need a liver transplant to live and things were complicated more when he learned that, based on testing, he did not qualify for priority status.Then Bourgeois saw a sign advertising billboard space for rent on Bath Road and he had an idea.He hopes people with Type O blood pays particular attention.
“If I can find somebody to give me the liver, it would be great, because my outcome without it is bleak,” he said.Counterfeit eclipse glasses are selling online. How to spot fakes, there were over 2,900 organ transplants performed in 2022, with just 20 per cent of those being donations from live donors.Over the past few years, Bourgeois has spent many days and nights in hospital, missing birthdays, graduations and other life milestones.
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