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I was diagnosed with deadly liver disease at 19. There had been a warning sign five years before… but now my skin ITCHES from infection

I was diagnosed with deadly liver disease at 19. There had been a warning sign five years before… but now my skin ITCHES from infection

Courtney Kidd was just 19 when she learned she’d eventually die if she didn’t get a new liver. The New York teen had been diagnosed five years earlier with Crohn’s disease, which causes inflammation in the digestive tract.   During a round of routine bloodwork, doctors noticed Kidd had elevated liver enzymes, proteins that help produce substances like bile to filter …

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