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