![]() ![]() Photo courtesy Medstar Georgetown Hospital. He and Boor are working to launch Stop the Shortage. Rohit Sadoskar, M.D., served as the transplant hepatologist on Lynly Boor’s case. It’s the impact on the community… Every donor can save eight lives and enhance over 75 more.” “It’s not just the impact on the recipient,” Boor said, “it’s the impact on the donor. Rohit Satoskar, shares her interest in promoting education and science to “close the gap” not only between those on organ transplant waiting lists and those whose lives are saved, but also on people’s understanding of how transformative being an organ donor can be. One of her supervising physicians, transplant hepatologist Dr. So, she re-dedicated herself to giving back and serving others. ![]() Having received a liver transplant, Boor now believed she benefited from miracles in medicine and that her parents had been “looking out for ” throughout the ordeal. military service members, veterans and their families. She served as the head of external affairs for United Service Organization (USO) for 10 years working with U.S. “She came into the hospital near death and,10 days later, she walked out to return to a healthy, normal life,” her transplant surgeon, Alexander Kroemer, M.D., said in Medstar Georgetown’s newsletter.īoor was raised in a family dedicated to service. “I have to tell you, that team of nurses and doctors and the care at Medstar, it was incredible,” she said. Four days after entering the hospital, she had a new liver, courtesy of an anonymous 30-year-old female donor and the swiftly-acting medical team at Medstar Georgetown. Immediately, she was placed on the liver donor registry, status 1-A. Without a transplant, she would die within days. After her workup and a liver biopsy, her doctors determined her kidney was dying – with only 15 percent function - due to the poisoning effects of herbal supplements she’d been given by her longtime acupuncturist. What had gone wrong? She had been “totally healthy” and physically active before. “It was the day after Mother’s Day and it was pouring rain.” Boor had lost her mother the previous year and her father earlier and within hours she would receive her fateful diagnosis: liver failure. She’ll never forget her trip to the emergency room at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital in May 2018. “The next thing I knew,” she said, “it was like ‘whoosh!’ I had 40 pounds of fluid in me and my eyes were turning yellow.” ![]() “I figured maybe it was allergies or I was coming down with the flu or something, but then my stomach got weirdly bloated and it just wasn’t going down.”īoor had no idea how much danger she was in and how her life was about to change. But now, she “just sat there.” After touching down at Reagan National, she began thinking “that was the weirdest flight I’ve ever been on.” For a few odd weeks, she returned to her work schedule, but something just felt off. “Usually, I’m busy, reading or doing my work,” she recalled. business trip, Georgetowner Lynly Boor, a strategic planning consultant in her mid-50s, suddenly felt listless in her seat, patting her forehead to check for a fever. ![]()
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