BY KIRA PEIKOFF ON 1/30/16 AT 9:50 AM
Sandra C., a special education teacher in New Jersey, didn’t worry too much when her doctor told her to call a liver specialist. Sure, she got fatigued running around with the schoolchildren, and friends sometimes told her she looked green, but in general she felt healthy—she couldn’t be that sick.Continue reading....
The phone call she made five years ago shattered her life. “The woman who answered said, ‘Abdominal and Liver Transplant Center,’” recalls Sandra, now 52 and retired. “I hung up thinking I must have the wrong number.” But Sandra’s doctor assured her that she had called the right place—they wanted the specialists there to perform a liver biopsy to investigate why certain enzymes in her blood were so elevated. The invasive surgical procedure showed she was much sicker than she realized. Sandra (who requested to go by her first name only, because she hasn't told some of her family about her illness) had a severe form of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH.
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