Lois Willson Boyd

Lois’s Story

For several years, Lois has quietly suffered with NASH advanced liver disease, but more recently, she has been fighting the biggest hardship of her life. Living with advanced liver disease was not easy, with major symptoms including constant nausea, cognitive struggles, and persistent swelling. After extensive evaluations by Emory University Hospital, where she’d been seen at the transplant clinic for a couple years prior, she was enlisted for liver transplantation in the summer of 2017.

The illness progressively worsened until November 2017, when her liver function dramatically decreased and got the best of her and her lifestyle, and she lost her mobility and ability to take care of herself. On the evening before Thanksgiving, her daughter, Hannah, and son-in-law, Tyler, were forced to take her to the hospital, and she has not returned home since.

Lois spent all of December in the hospital at Emory, where they were able to get her symptoms under control. Once she was stable enough, she was transferred to Emory’s acute rehabilitation center to gain her strength back. Only 16 hours after being transferred from the hospital, she got the call she and her family had been so patiently waiting for, and she was transferred right back to the hospital for her liver transplant on December 27, 2017. One 10-hour operation later, and she began her second chance at life.

Family and friends of Lois Willson Boyd are raising money to pay for uninsured medical expenses associated with liver transplantation.

Lois has chosen to fundraise with Help Hope Live in part because Help Hope Live assures fiscal accountability of funds raised and tax deductibility to the full extent allowed by law for donors. Donors can be sure that funds donated will be used only to pay or reimburse medically-related expenses. To make a tax-deductible donation to this fundraising campaign, click the Give button.

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