{"id":1858,"date":"2024-08-29T16:30:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T22:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liver.local\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2025-01-22T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:36:19","slug":"lhistoire-de-julias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liver.ca\/fr\/julias-story\/","title":{"rendered":"L'histoire de Julia"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-story"],"acf":{"title":"","text":"","image":"","landing_page":false,"blocks":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My name is Julia. For as long as I can remember, I\u2019ve been interested in helping people. I feel lucky that this is something I get to do for a living as an emergency room nurse.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I was in my second year of nursing school, I saw an ad in the paper for someone seeking a living organ donor. I applied and was turned down due to my age\u2014in BC where I live, you needed to be 25 to be an anonymous organ donor.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After being turned down a second time because I was too young to donate my kidney, I looked at other pathways to be a living donor. As it turned out, an Ontario family was seeking an anonymous living liver donor. My age wasn\u2019t a limiting factor there, and I had family I could stay with. When it turned out that I was a match, I was thrilled\u2014finally, I could help someone through organ donation! <em>(Julia later donated a kidney to another stranger! This makes her 1 of the (less than!) 10 Canadians who have ever decided to anonymously donate more than one of their organs to a complete stranger!)<\/em><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The way I see it, every day is a chance to help people. With every connection comes the opportunity for empathy and generosity. Every day and every way we choose to show compassion can truly change someone\u2019s life.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my work as an ER nurse, I frequently meet people who are experiencing complications from liver disease. These are people who have waited a long time on the transplant list and have a decreased quality of life as a result.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From these encounters I know that liver diseases affect many people. And it does not discriminate\u2014it can affect anyone.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<h3><b><i>\u201cDonating a portion of my liver is the best thing that I have done, i<\/i><\/b><b><i>t\u2019s only a few months of your life that could improve someone\u2019s quality of life or even save someone\u2019s life.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Liver Canada has been amazing at helping me share my story on organ donation. And for people affected by liver diseases, they offer education and resources, answer questions, and provide connection with others going through similar things. Last year, their patient education resources and materials traveled far and wide to reach doctors\u2019 offices all across Canada, including Indigenous communities. <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s why Liver Canada\u2019s work matters so much. With every liver-healthy tip, every brochure about testing and screening, and every resource about transplantation they are benefiting millions of people across Canada.<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","remove_heading_underline":false}],"tldr":"","story":"","bg_colour":"none","story_pretitle":"","story_title":"","story_text":"","story_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liver.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liver.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liver.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liver.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liver.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/liver.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4577,"href":"https:\/\/liver.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/4577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liver.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liver.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liver.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liver.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}