When it comes to a liver transplant, I don t read about it. I don t see it. Torturous waiting For more than a year, Mary Wallace, of Southwest Philadelphia, has been thinking daily about a liver transplant. At 59, she s been on the waiting list at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania since Jan. 10, 2000. She believes she was infected with hepatitis C more than 25 years ago when she received a blood transfusion while her gall bladder was removed.
Some days are good.
Some days are bad. Sometimes I wake up crying, she said. Every other Wednesday, Wallace attends group therapy sessions at HUP for people who are waiting just like her. There are always people worse off than me. He s my mentor.