Slow road to recovery

Jennie Peterson Liver Recipient

“I don’t want to waste the gift I have been given” Jennie says

Born on Christmas Eve, 1948 in a wee cottage hospital in Lower Hutt, Jennie Peterson describes herself as a ‘sickly kid’ whose ill health prompted her family to move to Fiji. Her family lived there for five years and she says they “thrived in the warmer climate”.

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Adele Hastie

I was thinking and praying for the donor family, realising the shock and overwhelming grief they would be experiencing, trying to somehow deal with this traumatic loss of their precious loved one.

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