My daughter, Anna Burnett, who has died aged 32 of a post-transplant disorder, packed more into her life than many people do over a much longer timespan. Anna was born with a rare genetic condition, Crigler-Najjar syndrome, which affected her liver and resulted in jaundice. This was controlled by phototherapy, and for the first nine years of her life she needed to spend 16 hours out of 24 under special lights. But at the age of 10 her outlook was transformed when she had a liver transplant: free...
My daughter, Anna Burnett, who has died aged 32 of a post-transplant disorder, packed more into her life than many people do over a much longer timespan. Anna was born with a rare genetic condition, Crigler-Najjar syndrome, which affected her liver and resulted in jaundice. This was controlled by phototherapy, and for the first nine years of her life she needed to spend 16 hours out of 24 under special lights. But at the age of 10 her outlook was transformed when she had a liver transplant: free...
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