She juggled two jobs while battling a pair of autoimmune diseases and started a campaign to find a liver donor. But NewsdayTV reporter Amy McGorry isn't done focusing attention on the growing crisis of liver disease and the need for life-saving organ donation.
Later this month, the Sea Cliff resident will join others from Long Island and across the country whose lives have been impacted by liver disease to meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, call for better treatments, access to care and safeguards for living organ donors.
Tissue damage from her long-term bouts with autoimmune hepatitis and, later, primary biliary cholangitis, have left her in an urgent search for a new liver. Because the waitlists are so long for organs from a deceased donor, her best chance is finding a person willing to donate a piece of their liver.
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