Part 4. Listen and Relax.

Keywords
donate, donor, liver transplant, living-donor, transplants, life preserver.
Vocabulary
donate, plead for, hepatitis C, transplant, cadaver, donor, B-positive, in a heartbeat, dent, ethically, unethical, bioethics, regenerate.
You're going to hear a radio program called Life Saver. Listen and enjoy.
Ken Schuler, a husband, a father, and an artist. He also saved another person's life in the most remarkable way.
Schuler is the first known person to step forward and donate part of his liver to a stranger.
It happened like this. He heard this man plead for his daughter's life. I'm hoping that there'd be somebody out there that would be kind enough to help my daughter.
39-year-old Debbie Parker's liver had been destroyed by hepatitis C. The wife and mother of three needed a liver transplant. Without one, she would die within days.
Because the list for a liver from a cadaver was so long, doctors suggested a new, experimental option, a living-donor liver transplant. That is, a living person can give Debbie a piece of his or her liver.
They said they were looking for a B-positive donor, which, that's what I am.