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The happiness in my heart is indescribable, her father said.
Finally, on Jan. 12, she asked her sister to bring her to Long Island Jewish Medical Center. At this point, she said she was so sick that she can t remember the events that followed.
She said she remembers one ultrasound at the hospital, then waking up to her doctors telling her she had a new liver. That one decision saved my life, Smith said. It s very overwhelming. Emotionally, everything, mentally.
Tests had revealed that Smith was suffering from fulminant Hepatitis B, a very rare condition in which the patient is sent into immediate liver failure.
Mother, 37, almost dies and needs a liver transplant after a Hepatitis B infection from a $60 NOSE RING left her unable to eat or even drink water
Dana Smith, 37, from Queens, New York, bought a $60 nose piercing over Thanksgiving as a birthday treat
After a few days she began to feel unwell but delayed going to the doctor
Eventually she couldn t eat and threw up blood, and went to hospital
Doctors at North Shore Hospital found the piercing had caused a deadly Hepatitis B virus that destroyed the mother of one s liver
Dana was put on the transplant list in January and a match was found in 48 hours
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