My first thought when I was told that I needed a liver transplant was that someone had to die for me to live; I thought I could not do that. Then I looked at it differently – people donate because they want someone to live.

It took me a long time to adjust to this.

The thing that helped me through was that I had such a great team.  I was so lucky with my team, I soon realised I had one of the best teams in the world and that I couldn’t be in a better place.

I felt so comfortable with them all - social work, nurse coordinator, psychiatrist, doctors.  I knew I could ring them at any time and if they were busy they would get back to me.  So many of the things I had worried about were not issues in the end.