A Minnesota father is celebrating a new chance at life thanks to his daughter, who donated part of her liver to save his.
The doctor noticed something unusual in his blood work and sent him to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, about four hours from the family's home.
"It was really hard. He just got sicker and weaker and was struggling with everyday tasks," said Cindy Maudal."And then the fear of what does this mean every time he had some new issue develop ... and the [fear of] what if he didn’t make it, what would life be like? What would that be like for me and Molly? And then trying to hold down the house at home, trying to work full-time, take care of his medications, it was stressful.
"It’s amazing the amount of people who have told us, ‘Oh, I thought I could only donate when I was deceased. I didn’t know I could do this when I was alive,'" said Mike Maudal."It was news to us too when we started down this path years ago." Molly Maudal though said she had been preparing to step up if she was needed, explaining,"In the back of my mind, for several years through it all, I was thinking about being a donor and in several ways wanted to arrange my life so that just in case he needed an emergency transplant, I could be there."Molly Maudal and her dad Mike Maudal underwent a successful liver transplant in June 2021.
"It was such a relief to know that we had a match and the wait and the uncertainty of finding a donor was over, just to know that he had a chance now," she said."I just had this sense of calm about my decision to move forward. It just felt right."
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