 Hi, my name is Denise. I'm 62 years old and I live in Red Bank, New Jersey. I learned that I was ill with a genetic liver disease because I started getting very tired, no energy. I started losing weight and finally went to the doctor and was diagnosed with this autoimmune liver disease over 40 years ago. She was sick and tired a lot but no matter what she always made sure that we were always taken care of and got to our practices and games and everything we needed to do and got our school work done and she was a very good mother overall. After over 22 years, 24 years of liver disease, the disease progressed and led to something called cirrhosis of the liver and after that there's no hope. I was on the list for almost a year and finally the call came and a liver transplant saved my life. Everything she's doing now is just building more awareness and I just I think that that's you know a huge part of how she helps others. I mean obviously the obvious thing is going back to school and becoming a nurse you know and overcoming what she overcame to go back to school and become a nurse and because she she just wanted to help people you know that's she people helped her and she wanted to get back and help help people as well so. I would not be here if it were not for the miracle of organ transplant so now that I am retired and have time I want to go and spread the word so that people know just how successful organ transplant can be and help people understand the process get people to sign up to beat organ donors if they're not already on their driver's license and let people know that this is a positive thing a wonderful thing that saves lives. What she's done in the past year alone and the way that she tells her story and I think that's very inspiring for others and showing that like organ donation is not is not this like scary thing it's it can be it's life-saving. Every day close to 20 people die waiting for an organ waiting for a transplant so if I can spread the word I like to say and let people know that this is successful I am lucky to be alive I am successful 21 years later still here alive I think that's a wonderful thing.