Like Her Sisters Before Her, Val Mowatt Is Dying Of Liver Disease. So Why Can’t She Get A Transplant? Are you going to make me do the same thing that my sisters did sit and wait to die? Jessica McDiarmid Updated
(The sisters, from left to right: Judy, Veronica and Val)
First, they lost Judy. The youngest sister in a large family from the Gitxsan Nation in northwest British Columbia, she was in her forties when she died. She was diagnosed with primary biliary cholangitis, an autoimmune disease that destroys the liver, and put on the province’s waitlist for a transplant. She died waiting, in 2014.
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She vowed to restore dignity to her late husband after he was abandoned by the medical community because he suffered from alcoholism. An Ontario court has found she’s done that and so much more for people like him.
Debra Selkirk’s husband, Mark, was a businessman well known for his fiberglass company that made the moose sculptures for a Toronto street-art project in 2000.
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He was active in his community. A grandfather who loved to crawl on the floor with his grandkids.