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A liver for LuLu: One family's tragedy brings life to others
The Salt Lake Tribune
SALT LAKE CITY, UT—Liz Badger is scouring every cupboard and drawer, tossing enough kitchen containers, blankets and clothes to fill at least a dozen bags for charity.
This time, though, she’s not nesting before bringing a baby home from the hospital. She’s working off her anxiety about taking her dying daughter back there.
In a pink bedroom down the hall, 13-month-old London slumbers most of the day, in end-stage liver failure.
Affectionately called LuLu, the dark-haired, dark-eyed girl is one of the sickest children on the pediatric transplant waiting list in the Western United States. Without a new liver soon, her doctors fear, she won’t make it.
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