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Pay it Forward

A friend of mine from our Liver Disease Support Group has been with me every step of the way with Ashley's illness. Peggy and I have known each other for what seems like decades since we met online, last year in California we met for the first time. Peg's daughter, Fiona, has the same liver disease as Ashley. Fiona is 19 years old.

Fiona was my hope for Ashley when Ashley was first diagnosed. Fiona was doing well living with bilary atresia. Fiona's mother was also told that Fiona wouldn't live past her first birthday but she did. However, today the effects of biliary atresia are slowly sucking the life out of Fiona. Fiona's heart, lungs and just about everything else in her body is experiencing the complications of living for years with liver disease.

Today, Fiona found out that if she has pulmonary hypertension that she would not qualify for a liver transplant. Pulmonary hypertension can be caused by end stage liver disease. Basically today, Fiona and Peggy were told that Fiona is either going to die of liver disease or heart failure.

Please visit Fiona's Blog, In My Shoes, and leave her a message of hope. Please say a prayer for her healing. Please pray that the Lord give both Fiona and Peggy strength to get through this time.

I am asking you to do this because Peggy has helped me cope with and manage Ashley's heath. I am asking you to do this because I want to Pay it Forward. If anyone needs prayers right now, it's Fiona. Please pray...Please visit her blog and leave a message of encouragement.

Thank you
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