THE NEW LIFE

 

Graphic composition by Nila Murillo.

In the corners, Owen, the Prince of the other World.

In the center Jane and Nilita. 

She is Nila Murillo-Argudo. At the beginning of 2016, she was in an extremely serious health situation. She was admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital for an emergency. Diagnosis: Liver cirrhosis of unknown origin. There was no chance of recovering her health through treatment. Only way out: liver transplant!

This is one of the most complicated procedures in modern medicine, as it is a high-risk surgery, which may well end in the death  of the patient. Another, and perhaps the most difficult, to fine the donation of a healthy liver that meets all the requirements for a transplant, among other things that is compatible with who is going to receive it. Finally, hope that there is no rejection of the recipient's body by an "invader" organ.

Mission almost impossible. Thousands of people have died waiting to fine liver donors. Many of these millionaire people who did not  get the opportunity for a new life.

Nilita was hospitalized for more than five months, with a brief interval in which she was returned home. She received excellent attentions from Mount Sinai medical staff, assistants, area team members, social workers and others.

Her diseased liver produced ammonia in enormous quantities that made the situation much more complicated. She was on dialysis two and three times a week, because her kidneys were being seriously damaged, and she was filling with a very damaging fluid inside her, causing a terrible swelling that threatened to kill her.

When everything seemed lost, and one night  when she had been discharged to wait at home for a donor (and possibly death), a team of professionals from the transplant area arrived at the place  where she was undergoing dialysis. They ordered disconnected her, and took her urgently to the operation room. "A donor had appeared", they informed Nila. "That it was a healthy man, barely twenty years old". She say: "It's okay, no more talk. Transplant me, please"!

The dangerous operation began at midnight between Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th of May 2016.

In the morning she was already in the recovery area. Her new, young and vigorous liver began to work at its best. So much, so that although she had predicted that she would have to have a kidney transplant because hers were disabled. Within days they had recovered and were working normally. That new liver adapted wonderfully well to her body and saved her life.

The donor, our loved Prince from another World, Owen. His decision to be an organ donor, accepted by his mother Jane, saved Nilita's life. In  other words, he gave her a new life. Thanks, Owen. You are and will be in our hearts for the rest of our lives.

New York, May 14, 2021

Ivan.