"My name is Abby, I’m 21 years old  and a junior in college. I was born with a rare genetic liver condition called Wilson’s Disease. It’s where your liver can’t properly eliminate or process copper and so instead, it accumulates in your liver and then other organs as well. I pretty much had asymptomatic symptoms of this disease throughout life- besides anxiety and other mental struggles that I didn’t know came along with the disease. Within a week before my transplant, (at 20 years old) I began having physical symptoms like jaundice, swelling of my legs and abdomen, extreme fatigue, and throwing up stomach bile, etc. A few days before my transplant I was diagnosed with Wilson’s and stage 4 acute liver failure."