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#410: She Survived a Liver Transplant. Then Questioned If She Deserved It. | Nadia Musiuk Liver transplant survivor

#410: She Survived a Liver Transplant. Then Questioned If She Deserved It. | Nadia Musiuk Liver transplant survivor10 aug1 u 15 min

Her son was 12. While she was on the waiting list for a donor liver, he went home and Googled everything she was too scared to search. She came through the surgery. And then sat with a question that stopped everyone in that room.

Dr. Kaiser Raja, her surgeon at King's College Hospital Dubai, is also in this conversation. And Spencer does something in this episode that Nadia did not know was coming.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:17 Why Nadia chose to share her story

02:12 When the diagnosis changed everything

07:21 Waiting for a donor: the school run she will never forget

11:30 The operating theatre and what her son said before she went in

17:16 Did I really deserve this second chance?

28:06 Her first steps back: 30 seconds at a time

34:26 Living with someone else's liver: the fear of rejection

42:23 What Dr Kaiser means to her