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Surgery photos by Winnie Hu | UW Medicine
The right lobe of Lauren Anderson’s liver awaits transplant to her mom, Kris Anderson, on Dec. 8, 2020, at UW Medical Center.
A Washington state woman is recovering after a landmark organ transplant that she hopes will end her nearly decade-long bout with cancer. Kris Anderson, 51, of Redmond, received a lobe of liver from her daughter Lauren on Dec. 8. It was the Pacific Northwest’s first living-donor liver transplant for metastatic colorectal cancer.
Lauren Anderson, left, and her mom Kris are recovering from liver-transplant surgery.
Kris Anderson was discharged from UW Medical Center on Dec. 14, two days after Lauren. Both are recovering well at the family’s home, and both their livers will grow back to approximately 90% of original size in three months.
A year ago I had brain surgery to remove a tumor on my balance nerve, which had made everyday life a nightmare of vertigo, dizziness, headaches, and blurred vision. As best I know, the operation was a success: the troublesome tumor was plucked out of my head, and all the king’s horses and men put me back together again, almost as good as new. But they left a scar that curves up from behind my ear, sweeps over toward my forehead, and then makes a big downward turn. The knife work was done by a master, the incision clean and confident, the stitching marvelous. Yet there it is, my head scored in livid color, a question mark missing its dot.
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FDA authorizes Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
By Matthew Perrone and Lauran Neergaard
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FDA advisory committee votes to recommend emergency use of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
A key advisory committee to the FDA on Thursday voted to recommend the approval of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, one of the final hurdles before FDA authorization.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use on Friday, the second vaccine to be approved by U.S. regulators to prevent severe COVID-19 illness.
FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, called the approval another crucial step in the fight against this global pandemic.