“She gave me life, I can return the favor”. It is in these terms that Brian Bolduc explains the gift he gave to his mother: the 38-year-old man, who lives in Northbridge (United States), lost more than 35 kilos to save his life. of the latter, giving her some of her liver.
At 68, Rose Bolduc suffers from non-alcoholic hepatic steatosis. The disease progresses and she feels the symptoms more and more: she is in particular the victim of mental confusion. To heal, she has no choice: one graft partial liver is necessary. It is without hesitation that his son offers to be his donor. But when he meets Dr Adel Bozorgzadeh, head of the organ transplantation division at UMass Memorial Medical Center, a hospital in Worcester, it is disappointment: he weighs 125 kilos and his overweightdoes not allow him to donate part of his liver.
Sport, balanced diet and smoking cessation
For Brian, this announcement is a click: he decides to take charge to save his mother’s life. He stops to smoke and goes to a weight loss center three or four times a week for cardio and strength training. He is also followed by sports coaches and dieticians, who prepare his meals so that he does not consume more than 1,200 calories per day.
Six months later, Brian weighs 35 pounds less and is ready to donate part of his liver to his mother. “I was very happy to be able to do this because there aren’t many people who can say they saved their mother’s life,” he said. © to Mass Live. With partial laparoscopic liver removal, a minimally invasive procedure, Brian quickly recovered from the operation. His mother, meanwhile, is recovering. One thing is certain: she will never forget her son’s gesture.
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