June 8, 2023

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Florida's quote of the day

| 5/25/2023

"My mom gave me life — I gave her more life."

-- Derek Sanz

Nonalcoholic psoriasis of the liver made Patricia Sanz’s life miserable the past two years. Constantly sick and weary, she missed weeks of work.

The Citrus Park resident was sick enough to be added to the transplant waiting list, but as her condition wasn’t immediately life-threatening, Sanz, 64, would likely have to wait years, doctors told her. Meanwhile her condition could worsen.

Then she learned from her doctor at Tampa General Hospital she could get a liver immediately if she was willing to be the hospital’s first ever recipient of a living donor transplant.

And it would mean her son going under the knife too.

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