Maureen Carrig was scrolling through social media one day in December when she came across a headline that would shape her next year.
She had never considered becoming a living donor, but when she saw Denver7’s story about a woman’s experience donating part of her liver for children on the transplant list , she decided to see if she would be a good candidate for the surgery.
“I read the story online. It showed up in one of my social feeds, and it really stopped me in my tracks because I thought if that were me, if that were somebody in my family, one of my friends, and nobody was a match, I would hope that somebody would come forward and offer to donate on their own,” Carrig said. “I went straight from that story to the link to UCHealth. Filled out an application first week of January. I was contacted by one of the transplant coordinators, and here we are now, almost a month after surgery.”…