Mother, father, son and daughter all have scars from ordeal made easier by Foster Foundation
It's a family photo like no other: Mom, Dad, son and daughter each showing off their liver-transplant scars.
"It's pretty neat," said Jason Hampson, the father in the photo. "It's different anyway."
The scars are a permanent reminder of the Hampsons' ordeal and the help from the David Foster Foundation that helped make it easier.
Hampson said things would have been considerably different if the foundation hadn't covered thousands of dollars in family expenses, food, parking and accommodation during not one but two transplants.
"We would have been seriously in financial debt, for sure," said Hampson, whose family was flown to Victoria this weekend to help mark the foundation's 25th anniversary.
The Hamilton, Ontario, family is possibly the only one in the country in which two siblings, both suffering from unexplained liver failure, have each received life-saving organ donations from one of their parents.
The older child, Logan, was born healthy Aug. 18, 2007. But at 4 1 / 2 months, he started throwing up, so his parents, thinking he had the flu, took him to hospital.
A few days later, after mother Lynn thought Logan's eyes looked yellow, he was admitted. After a barrage of tests, it was determined something was wrong with his liver.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/thewest/family+transplants/6683767/story.html
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