I was diagnosed in 1988 with primary sclerosing colangitis, a disease of the bile ducts of the liver. In 2005 I was placed on a liver transplant list. I was transplanted TWICE in two days with cadaver livers because the first one they put in was too large for my body. I was saved by Saint Louis University Hospital, the same as I was almost killed. I have very mixed emotions about the ordeal. I spent 6 months as an in patient. I was having a outpatient procedure done a year later and stopped breathing in ICU - recovery. Again, escaping death by minutes, and this time almost 7 months.