SUBMITTED PHOTO Edwardsville resident and Granite City native Bryanna Warren celebrated 20 years as a liver transplant recipient this August.
Bryanna Warren said she didn't feel like she was alive until she was 8-years-old. That's when the Edwardsville resident and Granite City native received a liver transplant at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
"Before the transplant, I don't remember anything," Warren, 28, said. "After the transplant, I remember everything. It's almost like I wasn't even born until after the transplant."
Last month, Warren marked her 20-year milestone of being an organ transplant recipient. Warren was born with a condition called biliary atresia, a blockage in the tubes that carries bile from the liver to the gallbladder.
Warren's mother, Christy Lackey, said it took eight long years before her daughter's diseased liver could be replaced with a healthy one. The family was told the donor was a little boy who died in a car accident.
"Twenty years ago, (transplants) were kind of taboo," said Lackey. "You hear so much more about them now than you did 20 years ago. There weren't a lot of people we talked to that had a transplant."
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